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The Retreat, Venice, 2019 All About Writing’s 2019 Venice Retreat, which ran for two full weeks for the first time, attracted participants from around the world: Canada, the US, the UK and [...]

Enjoy a bit of literary fun with All About Writing and Slow Life at our creative writing workshop at Casa Labia in Muizenberg. Be inspired by the cry of gulls as you release your creativity, [...]

Welcome to this month’s newsletter Many of our community, it seems, have earmarked 2018 as their year for writing. We’ve had so many requests for help and support, we’ve decided to dedicate [...]

Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What does every would-be writer need to achieve their dreams? You would probably say: time and space. Yet writers have created great literature in half [...]

The building blocks of drama We all recognize the scenario. We’ve got the story – or at least the beginning and the end – in our heads. We know our characters. But now we have to start, to [...]

You only ever climb the mountain by… climbing the mountain. There’s no getting away from that. Likewise, you only ever write the book by… writing the book. But as every mountaineer can attest, it [...]

By Clive Goodchild-Brown Eight or so months ago I thought to myself somewhat naively that I wanted to try and write a novel. I am passionate about writing and had spent a few years casually [...]