Monday Motivation

Not everyone you encounter – or create – has a dome-like head, or eyebrows that bristle comically, or sports a distinctive portwine mark on her cheek, or is invariably accompanied, like Mr Krook [...]

Let’s talk about writing at its most granular level, where the choice of words writers make affects our experience as readers on a second-by-second basis. Take a passage like this, for instance: [...]

Face acting is a particular skill that some actors possess. This ability to communicate a range of emotions, sometimes in quick and contradictory succession, is a gift to screenwriters who will, [...]

A little Latin to perk us up: Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requires. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. Of course you’ll all recognize this as one of Catullus’s most memorable [...]

The start, not just of a new year, but a new decade acts as a spur to all of you whose ambitions include finally getting round to writing the book you’ve bottled up inside for so long. The [...]

Richard is on a much-deserved break, so here’s a re-post of one of our earlier Monday Motivations, from 2016. Doubt sits at the right hand of all writers. We spend a day at work, struggling [...]

Ever since we started All About Writing back in 2011, facilitator and writing coach Richard Beynon has been helping you start your week with some Monday Motivation, of the writerly flavour. To [...]

Ever since we started All About Writing back in 2011, facilitator and writing coach Richard Beynon has been helping you start your week with some Monday Motivation, of the writerly flavour. To [...]

I’ve not been a great Tarantino fan – not, at least, since the Kill Bill duet, which left me feeling unengaged and rather bored with all the operatic but strangely bloodless violence. But then, [...]

I want to celebrate, but lament the demise of, the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe, news of which calamitous event was announced by its 96-year-old founder, John Richards. He [...]

Ann Patchett, in her new novel, The Dutch House, has her two primary characters, a brother and sister, meet for the first time a woman their widowed father has brought home. This is how the [...]

The world, our institutions, and our so-called opinion-makers, speak a great deal about facts v. fiction, about fake news v. the truth. But where does the writer of fiction stand when it comes to [...]