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Dialogue can make or break a story. How do you write a scene which doesn’t sound like a tick-tock conversation taking place in a void? Sign up for our Saturday […]

A couple of weeks ago we held a Saturday workshop on The Hero’s Journey and My Octopus Teacher. The power of that fundamental story structure was demonstrated neatly by the […]

On 18 January our acclaimed Crash Course in Screenwriting for film and television gets under way. We assume that you’re already at least intensely curious about these visual media. We’ll […]

Face acting is a particular skill that some actors possess. This ability to communicate a range of emotions, sometimes in quick and contradictory succession, is a gift to screenwriters who […]

Writing for the big screen (and the little screen) is very different from writing for the page – but the skill sets overlap.  Two of the biggest of these overlaps […]

One of our mentoring participants had a thorny problem with speech tags the other day – which we were able to solve with examples from the work of another. A […]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 or a voucher to the same value to use on one […]