Hero’s Journey Course: Bookings now open with an early bird special!
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 […]
Creative Writing Workshop: What do they do while your characters talk, and why does it matter?
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 […]
Monday Writing Motivation: Maggie O’Farrell’s guide to research
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 […]
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What’s on in May: Humour writing workshop, a free webinar, and more!
A couple of weeks ago we held a Saturday workshop on The Hero’s Journey and My Octopus Teacher. The power of that fundamental story structure was demonstrated neatly by the […]
Monday Writing Motivation: It might be a sh*t-hill, but it’s my sh*t hill
I’m going to invite one of the world’s great short story writers to take my place at my laptop and write a piece for you about a moment in his […]
Free Webinar: What makes a good baddie?
Some of the best stories ever written have great antagonists. Join us on Thursday 15 April for a free webinar on writing the antagonist. Here’s your chance to ask Michele […]
Monday Writing Motivation: Provoke your reader’s curiosity
Covid has provided us with a real-life example of something critical to every form of creative writing. It has shown us how, when things stop happening, time becomes muddled and […]
Last chance to enrol for the Creative Writing Course
Our flagship Creative Writing Course kicks off on Saturday 10 April 2021. This comprehensive online creative writing course is designed to provide you with the skills and tools every writer […]
Win a voucher to our courses when you enter our April/May Flash Fiction Challenge
All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 / £ 150 or a voucher to the same value […]
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What’s on in April: Our flagship creative writing course, a free webinar, and more.
April brings you a smorgasbord of creative programmes, from our flagship Creative Writing Course, to a Saturday workshop focusing on the lessons we can learn from My Octopus Teacher, to […]
Monday Writing Motivation: We plan for the future – writers can plan for the past
Where do you begin a story? I don’t mean, where does a story begin – which is another question entirely – but where, when your goal is to tease out […]
Monday Writing Motivation: Give your readers a bonus
Let’s fantasise for a moment. You’ve finished your book, you’ve secured an agent (you only had to write thirty-seven emails to do so), and they’ve managed to place your manuscript […]
