You’re invited: Free character creation webinar
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 […]
Monday Motivation: What makes a writer?
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 […]
Monday Motivation: Read like a writer, write like a champ
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 […]
What screenwriting can teach novelists and short story writers
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 […]
Writing Secrets: Endings should never whimper
“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 […]
