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I love being able to do this – it’s like offering you a magic carpet, and transforming you into a Venetian writer, practising your craft in a 16th century palazzo. Now in its eighth year, our [...]

The Guardian last Saturday carried a series of short interviews with people who’ve been diagnosed with terminal diseases of one sort or another. I took a deep breath and read some of them. Each [...]

There’s a flat, yellow rock I swim out into the ocean to touch each day. It’s where I acknowledge what I have, give thanks … and beg favours of the creative muses. I’ve always been a bit [...]

I have often said that story ideas for writers are there for the plucking, like so many ripe fruit. This signal truth was brought home to me with force on our recent holiday in South Africa. We [...]

And a very happy, if belated New Year to you, too! I love new years and the opportunity they afford us to start afresh with new projects, new determination and a tankful of refurbished energy. [...]

All About Writing’s first webinar of 2024, Plan your Creative Writing Year, will help you start your writing year on the right foot.  Join us to ask any questions you have on: Growing good [...]

Every writing  journey comes with obstacles, lessons and victories. We know this.  But this year let’s remember that we learn a lot from them. Let’s carry these lessons into the new [...]

In this, the fourth of four blogs – the 400th in the sequence – takes us back to the water, in this case, the River Great Ouse on which Trish and I frequently kayak, and in which I occasionally [...]

During my end-of-year-break, I’m reposting old blogs: the 100th, 200th, 300th and 400th in the sequence. I’ve become more and more convinced over the years, and my writing career, that Keats was [...]

– Fred de Vries ‘Dear boy, what will you do with all those records?’, my late mother used to say. And that was when I was still in my early twenties and had only just started acquiring LPs [...]