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You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service Last month we asked you to participate in our survey and to answer two questions. Well, what were your answers? [...]

We’d like to ask you two questions We like to say that we’re in the business of dreams. Our aim has always been to help you make your writing dreams come true. But to do that, we need to [...]

What draws us to write about our travels? What is it about travel writing that is so beguiling? We, at All About Writing, receive almost daily queries from members of our community who hope to [...]

Want to see your name in lights? We launch our first Screenwriting Crash Course of 2019 in a week’s time. It is, we think not quite modestly, a really good course, both practical and inspiring. [...]

A happy new writing year from all of us Start the year as you mean to continue – writing. We’ll be here for you through the weeks and months, when it flows and when you feel as though you’re [...]

Write, daydream – and make the world a better place What we do – you and I – is not a luxury. No matter what state the world is in, don’t cut back on your creative work. It’s essential for [...]

Make 2019 the creative adventure of your life. Over the years we’ve designed courses that suit everyone from novices to masters. Here are our dates for 2019 – the twelfth year we’ve invited [...]

Don’t lose your writing fitness Daily writing is to writers what exercise is to athletes. Stop, and you’re in danger of becoming stiff and stilted. You lose your flexibility and strength. [...]

No matter where you are or what your circumstances, you can find a way to write. It can seem daunting at times, and that’s where we come in. We undertake always to be there to help in whatever [...]

The Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice I’m writing this in Venice, on the third floor of the Palazzo Albrizzi, where the fourth iteration of our annual writing retreat is about to begin. The first of our [...]

Writing’s a real life changer Adalbert Ernst was passionate about English, but became an anaesthetist. It was during a period of burn-out that he realised he’d been “robbed of something [...]

Anyone can learn to write It was five weeks into my current face to face Creative Writing Class on Monday. The participants had been reading their assignments out for comment and feedback over a [...]