Monday Motivation: Repossessing the past
I’ve always regretted having a memory that dredges up numbers, but not conversations or passages of writing that I’ve read and loved. Memory – not only of conversation and texts, […]
Monday Motivation: Marxism v. Pear Petals
Frequently when we’re asked to assess someone’s manuscript, or help a writer brainstorm a story idea, we have to begin by stating a fundamental principle of fiction. It is, we […]
Monday Motivation: How to inject your voice into your writing
I continue to mine George Saunders’s A Swim in the Pond in the Rain for practical writing wisdom, and found myself rereading a section on revision, which I think is […]
Monday Motivation: Walking on water
We thought we’d escaped the worst effects of the latest cold spell to grip these emerald isles. In December, ten days of sub-zero temperatures left the lake on which our […]
Monday Motivation: The challenge of Voice
I’ve started off the new year with a close and thorough examination of a list of the four hundred plus literary agents of the United Kingdom – in search of […]
A debate on finding your writing voice
Over the time Michele Rowe and I, Richard Beynon, developed our new Screenwriting Crash Course, we often discussed the questions being raised in the various modules of the course – […]
