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The start, not just of a new year, but a new decade acts as a spur to all of you whose ambitions include finally getting round to writing the book you’ve bottled up inside for so long. The [...]

This new year, make the decision to see the world differently – through a story-teller’s eyes. If you can do this, then every day, every trip to the supermarket, can feed your writing. [...]

We know you have big hopes and dreams for yourself, and your writing, in 2020. We’re here to support you, and we want to help you to achieve those dreams. Our online, Cape Town, and [...]

Ever since we started All About Writing back in 2011, facilitator and writing coach Richard Beynon has been helping you start your week with some Monday Motivation, of the writerly flavour. To [...]

Holidays are approaching. If you’re very lucky, it may give you time to write. You’re not usually expected at work and you’re not called upon (barring emergencies, of course) to summon the [...]

Do you want to write more in 2020? Perhaps you’ve promised yourself that this new year will finally be the year you’ll get back to your childhood passion, finish that novel you [...]

Ann Patchett, in her new novel, The Dutch House, has her two primary characters, a brother and sister, meet for the first time a woman their widowed father has brought home. This is how the [...]

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The world, our institutions, and our so-called opinion-makers, speak a great deal about facts v. fiction, about fake news v. the truth. But where does the writer of fiction stand when it comes to [...]

Of course, we’re all members of the box-set society. No social gathering passes these days without someone asking for recommendations about the latest, or the best, or the overlooked gems of [...]

Just because something is “true”, just because it happened, doesn’t mean it’s a story. This came up recently because we were assessing a manuscript – a memoir – and had to give the writer advice [...]

A piece of writing is like a set of dominoes. Overset one aspect and you overset all those that follow. We come across this problem a great deal in our mentoring programme. Each scene follows [...]