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Have you ever dreamed of writing for your favourite television series, or writing an award winning screenplay? Our Crash Course in Screenwriting will get you started and arm you with a […]

Mentoring applications open now – limited places available If you’re serious about that book, apply for our Mentoring Programme, before the end of November, for our six-monthly intake in [...]

Writing is rewriting. The first idea is not necessarily the best idea. Your protagonist must want something – badly. Writing is not the best way to prepare financially for old […]

I’m going to invite one of the world’s great short story writers to take my place at my laptop and write a piece for you about a moment in his […]

Let’s fantasise for a moment. You’ve finished your book, you’ve secured an agent (you only had to write thirty-seven emails to do so), and they’ve managed to place your manuscript […]

Mentoring applications open now – limited places available You promised you’d start that book or screenplay this year – but you’re stuck, or have no idea where to start. Or […]

Research underpins many powerful stories. Think for instance of Manhattan Beach, a fabulous novel by Jennifer Egan, set before and during World War II, in the naval yards of Manhattan […]

There’s often a fine balance between writing and procrastinating, particularly at the start of a writing project. I know many of you are thinking of starting a serious writing project […]

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 […]

For over seven years, Richard Beynon, co-founder of All About Writing and designer and facilitator of our Creative Writing Course, our screenwriting courses, and more, has motivated you with his [...]