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Got a story to tell? Join All About Writing’s Jo-Anne Richards and Joanne Hichens, author of recently-released memoir, Death and the After Parties, for a virtual Saturday Writing Workshop [...]

This is a story about how a gauzy attachment to a stereotype was shattered by the facts. On our travels on the canals and rivers of England, we have encountered hundreds, perhaps thousands of [...]

Your book called. It asked us to tell you it misses you. Misses how you used to daydream about it, how you used to work on it. Remember when you promised you’d finish it and submit it to a [...]

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 age. Writing is the [...]

This June, we’ve got a buffet of courses and events for you to cherry-pick from. The month kicks off with our flagship Creative Writing Course, continues strong with a free memoir webinar [...]

Unmotivated action is unbelievable and erodes the relationship between writer and reader. If, as a reader, you don’t believe that a character is capable of a given act, then you might as well [...]

Take advantage of our massive May discount of less 20% if you book and pay for any of these four courses by midnight on 31 May. Use the voucher code mayearlybird in either our UK shop or [...]

Let me develop a scenario, beginning from what really happened and then inventing elements that might turn it into a story, along the lines, you might have guessed from a preoccupation that has [...]

Let’s hear it for our community We’d like to take a moment to applaud you, the talented writers who make up our community. We’d like to celebrate your achievements and, in so doing, [...]

Language is capable of making the subtlest of distinctions. In our quest to move the story along, we sometimes forget about this awesome power. We write as if the world is divided into the good [...]

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 Creative Writing Workshop on 8 May, [...]

Some years ago, on our creative writing course, one of our students told us of her dream: to write a novel about the relations between men and women in 13th Century Yemen. We were, naturally, [...]