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It’s been a demanding year. There’s not a person I’ve spoken to who hasn’t faced a cost-of-living crunch, trouble at work or home, or an illness. I want to share why you should never let go of [...]

We’re in awe of the many people who manage to maintain the discipline of NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – while the year is rushing to its end. Good luck to those of you who are [...]

Let’s talk about writing at its most granular level, where the choice of words writers make affects our experience as readers on a second-by-second basis. Take a passage like this, for instance: [...]

Face acting is a particular skill that some actors possess. This ability to communicate a range of emotions, sometimes in quick and contradictory succession, is a gift to screenwriters who will, [...]

One of the reasons Dickens was such a great writer is that every character we encounter on his pages is vivid. He gives us just enough about each, no matter how incidental they may be to the [...]

Authenticity matters a great deal to some writers. Take Gregg Hurwitz, for instance, author of the Orphan X sequence of thrillers. He’s really good on lethal hardware. Here’s a paragraph on the [...]

The New York Times has been running an interesting series of articles which compile the answers that older readers give to the question: what life advice would you give to the paper’s younger [...]

When you become a writer, every sentence should be sacred to you. I give this advice a great deal in our mentoring programme. Pay attention to each word you use: does it say exactly what you wish [...]