It’s hard to achieve your writing goals alone. It’s easy to get stuck, easy to procrastinate, easy to give up. That’s why All About Writing exists. To give everyone the […]
We have invited the finalists onto the stage, we’ve examined them carefully as they paraded their virtues and their finery, and we have come to our decision. Yes, the winner […]
All About Writing celebrates its tenth anniversary this September, in the city which most symbolises how far we’ve come. Here we are, mentoring our writers in the most romantic writing […]
Current and forthcoming courses and retreats Our Creative Writing Online Course kicked off on Tuesday – but it’s by no means too late to sign up for a rollicking ride […]
Here’s a guest blog post by All About Writing community member Aimee-Claire Smith, who joined us on the McGregor Writing Retreat and is a recent graduate of our Creative Writing Course. [...]
I struggled to get the hang of friendship, as a child. Something would always shift: I would express a liking for the wrong band, or even the wrong hairband. And […]
2017 is our tenth anniversary year, so we decided to look at what you, our community, have achieved over the years – and we were gobsmacked. Twenty-seven of you have […]
I hope your new year’s resolution involved fostering your creativity rather than your business success or your abs. I’m not against gyms and I’m certainly not anti-success. Happy new year, […]
Writing is an adventure. This means that we confront any given writing project (any given morning, any given page) with a mixture of steely resolve – and abject fear. To […]
By Clive Goodchild-Brown Eight or so months ago I thought to myself somewhat naively that I wanted to try and write a novel. I am passionate about writing and had […]
How do you go about developing a character? I think every major character must have certain aspects to their personality in order for them to become real in my mind, […]