Writing Challenge

  Cliffhangers are tricky things. They’re not quite climaxes because they have to withhold some vital outcome. So if your crew of bomb disposal experts are gathered round a ticking bomb, and [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750. Here’s the challenge: Describe your bedroom in such a way as to [...]

Some excellent responses to our June/July challenge. Remember, we asked you to play devil’s advocate with regard to some belief you hold dear, and write a conversation in which a character argues [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750. Here’s the challenge: Cliff-hangers So you could think Dan Brown, at [...]

This month we’re going to stand up for the bad guy. Not only will our new competition back him, but we thought it worth giving a little thought to the person we all love to hate. Protagonists are [...]

An excellent crop of entries for this competition. Remember what the challenge was? A reminder: “Your perspective character finds a body – he or she could be a detective, but doesn’t have to be. [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a mini book report on the first 5000 words of your manuscript (or detailed feedback on 5000 words of writing) worth ZAR 2750. Here’s [...]

The logic of story Our 14-day coaching programme, The Logic of Story, begins in just four short days on May 7. It explores the ways in which writers can “glue” the elements of their stories [...]

Writing is a solitary process, which means it can leave you feeling lost and not a little lonely. In last month’s newsletter, we set out to help you to help yourself by giving you our best advice [...]

Congratulations to everyone who entered our February/March writing challenge . It wasn’t an easy one, because it relied so heavily on subtext – and all of you engaged with it in a creditable way. [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a place on our creative writing ​Coaching Programme: Focus on scenes.  It’s a fourteen step programme with your own personal [...]

Thank you all for the wonderful entries to the December/January challenge. We asked you to combine a monkey wrench, a fit of depression and a first edition of Bleak House as cunningly and [...]