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     Win a free writing assessment with our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge
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    By All About Writing
    In Tips for Writers, Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions, Writing Exercises
    Posted June 2, 2023

    Win a free writing assessment with our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge

    All About Writing’s latest flash fiction challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2900 / £ 170 or a voucher to the same […]

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    By Emma Hutton
    In Tips for Writers, Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions, Writing Exercises
    Posted April 11, 2023

    Win a free writing assessment with our April/May Flash Fiction Challenge

    All About Writing’s latest flash fiction challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2900 / £ 170 or a voucher to the same […]

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     Monday Motivation: The drama of dreams
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 3, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The drama of dreams

    By now you might have realised that I’m a dreamer. I return to wakefulness most mornings with the shreds of dreams falling about me, like confetti on a groom barely […]

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     Monday Motivation: Prejudice and the power of story
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 27, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Prejudice and the power of story

    As a child my parents possessed a large radiogram. In the middle sat a turntable, below a radio, and on either side two narrow cupboards for long playing records. I don’t […]

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     Monday Motivation: Where boundaries dissolve
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 20, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Where boundaries dissolve

    I’m not sure where this is going to lead me today, but I’m going to take a chance and risk writing something that might end up going nowhere useful at […]

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     Monday Motivation: The why’s that fiction pose
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 13, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The why’s that fiction pose

    A friend recently sent me a link to the acceptance speech given by the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, Olga Tokarczuk. It takes the form of a […]

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     Monday Motivation: Repossessing the past
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 6, 2023

    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, […]

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     Monday Motivation: Who can tell the writer from the word?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 27, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Who can tell the writer from the word?

    I was listening recently to a programme on the radio in which musicians were talking about their relationship with their instruments. These were all professionals, leading violinists or cellists. [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Existential threat or brainstorm partner?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 20, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Existential threat or brainstorm partner?

    Together with what sometimes appears to be the rest of the world, I have followed the debate around ChatGPT – the artificial intelligence search engine and chatbot –  with great […]

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     Monday Motivation: Marxism v. Pear Petals
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 13, 2023

    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 […]

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     Monday Motivation: How to inject your voice into your writing
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 6, 2023

    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 […]

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     Win a free writing assessment with our February/March Flash Fiction Challenge
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    By All About Writing
    In Tips for Writers, Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions, Writing Exercises
    Posted February 1, 2023

    Win a free writing assessment with our February/March Flash Fiction Challenge

    All About Writing’s latest flash fiction challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2900 / £ 170 or a voucher to the same […]

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    📚Author Spotlight📚Elizabeth Eksteen @ironfoe 📚Author Spotlight📚Elizabeth Eksteen @ironfoeniksofficial (Behind the Mask) offers authors some valuable insights on what it takes to write and self-publish a book in our Q&A. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/31/elizabeth-eksteen-qa/ 
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    What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten skills you need to master to write compelling fiction or creative non-fiction. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/30/cw-june-2023/ 
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    In the face of the prospect of universal annihilat In the face of the prospect of universal annihilation, how do we salvage reasons to push on? It’s an existential question that Richard deals with in this week’s Monday Motivation. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/29/whistling-in-the-dark/ #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram #writingmotivation
    Congratulations to our February/March Flash Fictio Congratulations to our February/March Flash Fiction Challenge winner, Marion Low. And to the runners-up: @carriejsteenekamp, @Linda_Ravenhill,  @Opheliha79, @celiafleming327 and @mitzibunce. Read all the entries here: ow.ly/ypa250Oq3bX 
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    What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of go What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of goose eggs, teach us about an important strategy of story telling? You can find out in this week’s Monday Motivation.
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    We learned so much at this year's fantastic @londo We learned so much at this year's fantastic @londonbookfair 📚 these were our top takeaways - which one is your favourite? Let us know in the comments 😊 

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