Unlock gripping stories by understanding the power of what your character wants! Jo-Anne Richards shares essential writing craft tips for fiction & memoir to create compelling characters and [...]
Here's why observation is the secret weapon of successful storytellers: A book doesn’t simply consist of plot, or even character. You want to spirit your readers into another world: make them [...]
Welcome to the recap of our March writers’ webinar focusing on the craft of sentence construction—the foundation of all compelling writing. If you missed the live session, you can watch [...]
Had you met me in my first year of school, you would never have pegged me as a future writer. Besides my awkwardness and social difficulties, I could not learn […]
Here’s the replay of our fun creative writing webinar designed to kick-start your most successful writing year. Your Best Writing Year: Key Insights from the Webinar Here’s what we [...]
I’m not sure that anything I’ve ever resolved to do at the start of the year has come to fruition. Something about the demands made by new year’s resolutions, the […]
Our focus as we wrap up 2024 is the art of the short story and in particular the new call for submissions from Short.Sharp.Stories. Here are the replays of our […]
Our focus this month is the art of the short story and in particular the new call for submissions from Short.Sharp.Stories. We held a fabulous short story webinar with Joanne […]
Short.Sharp.Stories invites you to write a short story of between 3000 and 5000 words reflecting on or inspired by their exciting theme: POWER. Submit your entry before midnight, 31 January […]
We had a fun creative writing webinar which we ran from our Venice Writing Retreat. Jo-Anne, Richard and Fred answered questions on aspects of writing, publishing, and the creative process. [...]
