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What can we do to brighten your August? All About Writing was born of passion, rather than a business proposal – which is why we remain committed to giving you as much free help and advice as we [...]

I was asked the other day what I would consider to be the “most important thing” a novice writer can do to improve her creative writing skills. Besides read, I asked? Her jaw became set and her [...]

Here’s a very short reflection on an absolutely essential attitude to writing. It can be encapsulated in a single, short dictum: The only question to worry about in your writing is, does it work? [...]

Most writers start off as readers, and lovers, of good books. In his recent Monday Motivation blog posts, Richard has been sharing the lessons he has drawn from a reread of Tolstoy’s Anna [...]

Writers are born, not made. True or false? It’s an interesting question because it puts on the table the issue of whether bad writers can become good writers. On a recent webinar we suggested [...]

Beginnings are exciting because you’re establishing the characters you’ve been developing, and, launching your great ideas. Middles are hard work because you need to keep people interested [...]

I’ve been watching Dark, the fabulously complex story of time travel and alternate universes, on Netflix – and am currently drowning in that very complexity midway through the third season. Time [...]

Of course, we’re disappointed that we can’t host our famous face-to-face Creative Writing Course this year, which usually takes place in Cape Town and Johannesburg, due to [...]

Billy Wilder was one of Hollywood’s great writer-directors. He was responsible for such evergreens as Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and many, many others. Towards the end [...]

  July and August are jam-packed with an exciting array of events. They include free webinars on travel and creative writing, short workshops, a weekend travel blogging workshop and more. [...]

Have a bit of virtual literary fun with All About Writing and a community of fellow writers when we present our virtual Saturday Writing Workshop. We’ve got one coming up in July and [...]

“So there’s this woman, see? And she has a child from a previous relationship, but the father didn’t know he had a child. The mother of the child struggled as a single mother, but now the father [...]