Creative Writing Workshop: What do they do while your characters talk, and why does it matter?
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 […]
What’s on in May: Humour writing workshop, a free webinar, and more!
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 […]
Crash course in (screen)writing excellence starts 18 January
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 […]
Monday Motivation: Face acting v. dialogue
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 […]
What screenwriting can teach novelists and short story writers
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 […]
Writing Secrets: Why you shouldn’t be using dialogue tags
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 […]
Enter our new challenge to sharpen your creative writing skills
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 […]
