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Unmotivated action is unbelievable and erodes the relationship between writer and reader. If, as a reader, you don’t believe that a character is capable of a given act, then you […]

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Let me develop a scenario, beginning from what really happened and then inventing elements that might turn it into a story, along the lines, you might have guessed from a […]

Let’s hear it for our community We’d like to take a moment to applaud you, the talented writers who make up our community. We’d like to celebrate your achievements and, […]

Recently, preparing for a webinar on the role of humour in stories, I totted up the number of television comedies I’ve written. It comes to somewhere in the region of […]

Humour is an indispensable ingredient of creative writing – and yet it’s a subject that is very seldom raised in writing courses or in books on creative writing. It enlivens […]

This challenge – to write an intriguing opening to a novel – wrung wonderful response from you, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Vying for top position are two entries that would […]

Language is capable of making the subtlest of distinctions. In our quest to move the story along, we sometimes forget about this awesome power. We write as if the world […]

Want rich and practical insights into structuring a story, a novel, a screenplay or a memoir? Insights that’ll help you not only shape your story for best dramatic effect, but […]

Dialogue can make or break a story. How do you write a scene which doesn’t sound like a tick-tock conversation taking place in a void? Sign up for our Saturday […]

Some years ago, on our creative writing course, one of our students told us of her dream: to write a novel about the relations between men and women in 13th […]