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Unmotivated action is unbelievable and erodes the relationship between writer and reader. If, as a reader, you don’t believe that a character is capable of a given act, then you might as well [...]

Covid has provided us with a real-life example of something critical to every form of creative writing. It has shown us how, when things stop happening, time becomes muddled and we lose [...]

Our flagship Creative Writing Course kicks off on Saturday 10 April 2021. This comprehensive online creative writing course is designed to provide you with the skills and tools every writer needs [...]

The blank page, the even blanker screen, can act as a profoundly inhibiting factor in the life of a writer. The blank page invites you to write… whatever you like. On the face of it, that sounds [...]

… Then now’s the time to do something about writing it. You’ve been wanting to start for months, perhaps years. Perhaps you’ve written the first few pages of it. Sometimes you daydream about the [...]

My mother didn’t allow us to use the word “bored”. She said there was always something to do, or think about. We could read, climb a tree, watch insects or simply sit thinking and day-dreaming. [...]

Whenever we sit down to write about characters we’ve invented or “borrowed” (I prefer to say, “stolen”) from people in what we loosely believe is the “real world”, we’re actually writing about [...]

Don’t panic. That’s the theme for the New Year. There was too much of that last year and it wasn’t productive. I hope that, this year, you’ve cast aside unattainable resolutions in favour of an [...]

Here’s the scenario.* It’s a complicated one, but bear with me, because the question that’ll follow it** is challenging: Your hero, Pierre, an advocate for the high court, is in love with a [...]

If last year taught us anything, it was that nothing should be taken for granted. Remember when we hankered just for a trip to the supermarket? Well, don’t let’s take anything for granted this [...]

Christopher Vogler wrote a book called The Writer’s Journey, which introduces writers of all stamps – but particularly screenwriters – to the mysteries of The Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell’s [...]

New year, new writing webinars! Our regular free writing webinars were a great hit in 2020, and we’re excited to tell you that we’ll be holding them monthly in 2021. Since it’s the [...]