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One of the highlights of our 2020 was developing our new Hero’s Journey Course. It strikes us, though, that as we emerge fitfully from this year of the plague, we’re all embarking on our own [...]

For over seven years, Richard Beynon, co-founder of All About Writing and designer and facilitator of our Creative Writing Course, our screenwriting courses, and more, has motivated you with his [...]

All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops She [...]

Something has shifted this year. We’re (many of us through necessity) spending less. We’re more aware of what’s important. That means focusing on the people we hold dear and on our creative [...]

“Meaning” is the thing that lies behind, or beneath, or beyond. The sighs of a lover are what we note. But the meaning of those sighs is what we interpret. The speed of our hero’s response to [...]

Point of view determines the way your reader apprehends the “reality” of your protagonist’s universe, including his own interior cosmos. A single perspective shines a light on reality from just [...]

I don’t know about you, but there are characters from books that I remember quite as clearly as the people I grew up with. They are as real to me, and they helped shape the person I became just [...]

We might read novels for the stories they tell – but often it’s the characters in them that linger. And so it’s worth pondering some of the most memorable of character descriptions – sometimes [...]

“Every human situation, every sort of meeting or conversation, is something you have read before or know by heart. But then here comes a story – maybe only a couple of paragraphs in that [...]

This brings us to up to the three hundred and sixty-fifth of my Monday Morning essays – and the last of the reprises I’ve allowed myself. It was written in July, 2012 which seems like more than [...]

Something for writers of every flavour We’ve seen writers of every flavour in the 13 years since we started All About Writing. We’ve had young writers, older writers, first-time-picking-up-a-pen [...]

Join us and a community of fellow writers for a Saturday morning writing workshop. This time round, we’ll be looking at subtext and how you can use it to better tell stories. The workshop [...]