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We are delighted to be kicking off our Writers’ Circle again for 2023. Our first live session will take place on Tuesday 17 January at 16:00 UK time/ 18:00 SA time. Many of you have been [...]
Happy New Year: Start the year off with our Thirty-Day Bootcamp
Happy New Year to our loyal and supportive community. We hope this year will bring great things to everyone and we thank you once again for your support of us over the years. A new year means a [...]
Deadlines looming: flash fiction challenge and Black Friday Special end at midnight
Black Friday Special This is your last to get a massive 50% off our 30 Day Writing Bootcamp, designed to develop your writing discipline and hone your writing skills. We invite you to join us on [...]
What’s New: November 2022
If you feel the end of the year looming without having achieved your writing goals, don’t worry, it’s not too late. It’s just the first day of November and there are still 61 [...]
Early bird special: 20% discount ending soon!
This is your last chance to take advantage of our early bird specials of less 20% for either our real-time Creative Writing Course or our online Creative Writing Course. The offer ends at [...]
Early bird special: Write the book you keep promising yourself you will
We know it can be intimidating to take the first step towards writing that book you keep promising yourself you will. You might find yourself staring at a blank page imagining the first word you [...]
Less 20% early bird special: offer ends midnight 6 October
This is your last chance to take advantage of our early bird specials of less 20% for either our Hero’s Journey® Writing Course or our real-time Creative Writing Course. The offer ends at [...]
Early bird special: Forget the magic charms, we’ll get you writing
So you want to write a book? We can help Writing is not a magical process. You don’t need to sit waiting for inspiration, while desperation rises. No need to buy good luck charms, or wait for [...]
Monday Writing Motivation: How I fell out of love with swans
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 [...]
Monday Writing Motivation: Motivate unbelievable choices, and we’ll believe them
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 [...]
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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 fact that this week it [...]
Ready to write that book or screenplay? We can walk beside you.
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 you’ve begun but [...]
