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     Monday Motivation: Whistling in the dark
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 29, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Whistling in the dark

    Let’s have a little fun today considering the fate of the universe and all who sail in her. Let’s begin by reminding ourselves of what we understand the universe to […]

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     Monday Motivation: Saturday morning in the sun
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 22, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Saturday morning in the sun

    We met at La Piazza in St Paul’s Square, just a stone’s throw from the river, for coffee. The sun was shining. The crowds of people browsing for vegetables at […]

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     Monday Motivation: Goosey, goosey gander
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 15, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Goosey, goosey gander

    The first sign we were given that a torrid spring lay ahead of us was Brenda’s cry of dismay. “Get away,” we heard, “go on, let me through!” Which was […]

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     Monday Motivation: The enemy of good writing
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 8, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The enemy of good writing

    What’s the greatest barrier to good writing? Well, I suppose you could think of a great number of candidates. But how about complacency as one that should figure near the […]

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     Monday Motivation: What happened isn’t the story
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 1, 2023

    Monday Motivation: What happened isn’t the story

    What happened isn’t the story. Events don’t make stories. So the memoirist who protests that all she wants to write is “what actually happened” is missing the point. Indeed, the […]

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     Monday Motivation: Mantel at Southwark Cathedral
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 24, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Mantel at Southwark Cathedral

    Hilary Mantel was memorialised at a gathering in Southwark Cathedral last week. The great and the good were in attendance. Zadie Smith read an extract from one of her books; […]

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     Monday Motivation: The courage to ask for help
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 17, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The courage to ask for help

    Writing, we all agree, is a lonely business. We toil away in solitude, dreaming up our characters, and plotting our stories. We gnaw at our thumbnails waiting for inspiration to […]

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     Monday Motivation: The simple secret to writing success
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 10, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The simple secret to writing success

    Trolling through the internet, I came across something called “survivorship bias”. Have you heard of it? Wikipedia puts it very succinctly: “Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical [...]

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     Monday Motivation: The drama of dreams
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 3, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The drama of dreams

    By now you might have realised that I’m a dreamer. I return to wakefulness most mornings with the shreds of dreams falling about me, like confetti on a groom barely […]

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     Monday Motivation: Prejudice and the power of story
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 27, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Prejudice and the power of story

    As a child my parents possessed a large radiogram. In the middle sat a turntable, below a radio, and on either side two narrow cupboards for long playing records. I don’t […]

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     Monday Motivation: Where boundaries dissolve
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 20, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Where boundaries dissolve

    I’m not sure where this is going to lead me today, but I’m going to take a chance and risk writing something that might end up going nowhere useful at […]

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     Monday Motivation: The why’s that fiction pose
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted March 13, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The why’s that fiction pose

    A friend recently sent me a link to the acceptance speech given by the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, Olga Tokarczuk. It takes the form of a […]

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    In the face of the prospect of universal annihilat In the face of the prospect of universal annihilation, how do we salvage reasons to push on? It’s an existential question that Richard deals with in this week’s Monday Motivation. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/29/whistling-in-the-dark/ #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram #writingmotivation
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    What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of go What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of goose eggs, teach us about an important strategy of story telling? You can find out in this week’s Monday Motivation.
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