Writing Secrets: Are you writing or procrastinating?
There’s often a fine balance between writing and procrastinating, particularly at the start of a writing project. I know many of you are thinking of starting a serious writing project […]
Writing Secrets: The insidious slide from contemplation to procrastination
“Watching birds takes you out of yourself. It’s a flow state. Writing ideas come in sideways during such states. So perhaps it is a form of meditation.” That’s Margaret Atwood’s […]
Writing Secrets: When did “bored” become a bad thing?
My mother didn’t allow us to use the word “bored”. She said there was always something to do, or think about. We could read, climb a tree, watch insects or […]
Writing Secrets: Writing intentions are terrifying – but don’t show your fear
Don’t panic. That’s the theme for the New Year. There was too much of that last year and it wasn’t productive. I hope that, this year, you’ve cast aside unattainable […]
Writing Secrets: The art of setting creative intentions
I don’t like New Year’s resolutions at the best of times. If you made any last year, they were no doubt thrown into disarray. We’ve never experienced a time quite […]
Writing Secrets: It’s a different year – let’s make up for the last
If last year taught us anything, it was that nothing should be taken for granted. Remember when we hankered just for a trip to the supermarket? Well, don’t let’s take […]
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Rounding up the year’s top secrets to good writing (Part 3)
All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops. She [...]
Rounding up the year’s top secrets to good writing (Part 2)
All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops She [...]
Rounding up the year’s top secrets to good writing (Part 1)
All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops She [...]
Writing Secrets: Focus on what’s important
Something has shifted this year. We’re (many of us through necessity) spending less. We’re more aware of what’s important. That means focusing on the people we hold dear and on […]
Writing Secrets: Pick the right detail and a character springs to life
“He was a gentleman with red whiskers who always went first through a doorway.” This is how Guy de Maupassant described a character in one of his stories. Its details […]
Writing Secrets: A character’s voice speaks of who they really are
We never forget our first loves, do we? Not in life and certainly not in fiction. Last week’s blog caused in me a nostalgic sigh for the days when I […]
