All About Writing

Snorkelling in a new environment is like writing a new setting – it affects what you focus on. It has its advantages, but its dangers too, to watch out for.Last month, I spent two weeks [...]

Are you ready to see your story in print? Short.Sharp.Stories and All about Writing are excited to announce a series of workshops designed to support writers interested in submitting to the [...]

The questions we received for our writing craft webinar were on a wide range of topics from the difficulties of fitting writing into a busy life, to motivation, finding discipline and overcoming [...]

The experiences and memories we accumulate over time are not unlike leaf mould. Year by year, just as the leaves of a million trees rain down upon the ground, so an infinite number of sensory [...]

Don’t feel guilty for focusing on your creative needs – your life may depend upon it My mother was raised a Calvinist, so I was taught that time taken for myself was indulgent, a selfish waste of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Maybe because of my struggles with my own writing, I’m highly sensitive to the struggles of other writers. I  love mentoring, because like a midwife, I enjoy the immense satisfaction of helping [...]

 – Joanne Hichens My year of writing: difficult, exhilarating, satisfying, frustrating, on track. The difficulties? I’m easily distracted by Netflix and friends and chores and generally [...]

Every writer is on a Hero’s Journey, the length of which is determined by the scope of their writing project. And like the Heroes of their stories, they face obstacles, trials and tests en route [...]

  The London Book Fair is one of the great marketplaces of the book industry. Richard and our associate Jo Carr (Our Honest Charlie Wood) were lucky enough to attend and shared some of their [...]