Building a Community and Brand Around Your Writing
Insights from London Book Fair 2025 Writers today are expected to be marketers too. Gone are the days when you could just write your book and let someone else worry […]
Strong Sentences, Stronger Stories: Craft Your Way to Powerful Prose
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 [...]
The foundation of good writing: the sentence
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 […]
Your best writing year starts here
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 [...]
Setting your writing intentions
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 […]
Best of 2024: The essential capacity that we bring to writing
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re sharing four of our most popular Monday Writing Motivation mailers from the year. This winter piece on the art of people watching showcases […]
Mining Your Inner World to Create Characters
Creating compelling characters can feel like an impossible task, especially when writing characters whose experiences and personalities seem far removed from our own. In both this blog and my [...]
Venice creative writing webinar replay
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. [...]
The power of ‘show, don’t tell’
Many writers struggle with the age-old advice to “show, don’t tell” in their work, often finding it challenging to strike the right balance between description and narrative. In [...]
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Author Q and A – Jennifer Withers – Gloam
Our Author Q and A series celebrates All About Writing community members. We hope this blog will inspire you to write, help motivate you to get to the finish line, […]
The Art of Restraint in Writing
Do you find yourself over-explaining emotions or situations in your writing? In both this blog and my next subscriber-only Monday Writing Motivation mailer, I look into the power of restraint [...]
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Author Q and A: Jennifer Withers – Gloam
Our Author Q and A series celebrates All About Writing community members. We hope this blog will help motivate you to get to the finish line, offer support to the […]
