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     Monday Motivation: Creative points of view
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted November 8, 2021

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     Creative Writing Workshop: What do they do while your characters talk, and why does it matter?
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    By All About Writing
    In How to write a book, Invitations, Workshops
    Posted May 4, 2021

    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 […]

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    Posted April 28, 2021

    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 […]

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    Posted January 13, 2021

    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 […]

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     Monday Motivation: Face acting v. dialogue
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted January 27, 2020

    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 […]

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     What screenwriting can teach novelists and short story writers
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Richard Beynon's blog, Screenwriting courses
    Posted August 10, 2019

    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 […]

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     Writing Secrets: Why you shouldn’t be using dialogue tags
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 15, 2019

    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 […]

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    In Writing Challenge
    Posted February 2, 2019

    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 […]

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