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Creating compelling characters that you and your readers care about is essential in getting your readers to invest in, and engage with your characters. Join us for a free writing […]

I was lounging in a living room overlooking False Bay with a glass of a robust and musky cabernet in hand, when that question occurred to me: what does it […]

Writing can be hard. When you set out to write a scene, you are conjuring into existence circumstances, characters, actions and dialogue that you have never, in life, precisely encountered […]

Germaine Greer once interviewed Luciano Pavarotti at his Italian villa. She was ushered through into the presence of the great man on the terrace where he was having breakfast. He […]

Writing for the big screen (and the little screen) is very different from writing for the page – but the skill sets overlap.  Two of the biggest of these overlaps […]

“The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.” This was Irwin Shaw’s advice to young writers, and I think of […]

I want to talk about names. Names we give our characters, names we give our houses and – our narrowboats. And what they can communicate about the meaning stitched through […]