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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 [...]

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 the kind of [...]

Many writers find themselves trapped in binary thinking about their writing journey, measuring themselves purely in terms of success or failure, especially as the year draws to a close. In both [...]

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 experiences and memories we accumulate over time are not unlike leaf mould. Year by year, just as the leaves of a million trees rain down upon the ground, so an infinite number of sensory [...]

A theme that has turned up time and again in these little essays is the virtues of restraint and limitation. I’m not sure whether this is not something that applies in life in general – I suspect [...]

I wasn’t looking forward to Venice. I know – sacrilege, right? I wondered at myself. What did it say about me? Did it mean I was tired of life, as Samuel Johnson once said of London? But on our [...]

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 [...]

On Venice It was a luxury to have unscheduled time in Venice to wander and ponder and tickle the creative parts of me.  The morning schedule with lively communal breakfasts, lessons, and mentor [...]

Find out how Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey® model can help your storytelling whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction – for the page or the screen. Join Michele Rowe [...]