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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 [...]

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 [...]

The value of community: A word each from Jo-Anne and Richard Jo-Anne We’ve never been quite as aware of the value of our All About Writing community as we have during the strange and fearful [...]

Join our virtual weekend course from which participants will emerge with the first draft of a short story.   We will encourage and mentor you through the process of developing story, from [...]

Maddingley Hall is a large manor house on the outskirts of Cambridge.  It was built by Sir John Hynde, a prominent judge in the reign of Henry VIII, and his son Francis in the mid-sixteenth [...]

It’s an old story oft told but one worth telling and retelling: simple is best, clear is most beautiful. It’s true that writing requires artifice and contrivance. Threaded through even the [...]

We recently advised one of our mentoring programme participants that a protagonist “lacked oomph”. The character ran away from problems and relied on others to rescue her. I didn’t respect her as [...]

Remember just this one magical point, and you’ll be an infinitely better writer for it. There’s great power in specific details. I was recently asked: “But surely some specific details, about [...]