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     January newsletter: Start the year the way you mean to continue – writing
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, How to write a book, Newsletters
    Posted January 5, 2022

    January newsletter: Start the year the way you mean to continue – writing

    Resolutions just make us all feel bad. Let’s rather fix our writing intentions for the year. Intentions are slightly different. They’re not as strict.   Resolutions are the bullies on the […]

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     December newsletter: Here’s to holidays – and a year of writing holidays
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, How to write a book, Newsletters
    Posted December 22, 2021

    December newsletter: Here’s to holidays – and a year of writing holidays

    It’s the month of holidays, so this newsletter will celebrate holidays and gift-giving – and look forward to a new year packed with writing holidays (because we know how badly […]

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     There are holidays … and then there are writing holidays
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, How to write a book, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Newsletters
    Posted December 16, 2021

    There are holidays … and then there are writing holidays

    Holidays should present you with time to do exactly what you please and concentrate on yourself, but they seldom do.   Writing holidays are different. These provide a time out of time for you [...]

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     November newsletter: A grand new writing year beckons – with everything you asked for 
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, How to write a book, Newsletters
    Posted November 24, 2021

    November newsletter: A grand new writing year beckons – with everything you asked for 

    It’s been another difficult year and, if I have any advice, it’s not to dwell on what you haven’t done. Celebrate what you’ve managed and look ahead.  Your frustrations and […]

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     Discover the secret to writing great stories in Stow-on-the-Wold
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    By All About Writing
    In Creative Writing Courses
    Posted March 19, 2019

    Discover the secret to writing great stories in Stow-on-the-Wold

    Explore the mysteries and the craft of creating story in that most charming of Cotswold market towns, Stow-on-the-Wold. Join a group of like-minded souls for the weekend of 7 to 9 June. […]

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     A rare writing weekend: A poem from All About Writing alumnus Sue Lesser
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    By All About Writing
    In All About Writing, Creative Writing Courses
    Posted October 12, 2018

    A rare writing weekend: A poem from All About Writing alumnus Sue Lesser

    Our Stow-on-the-Wold weekend writing workshop was, as Sue Lesser’s poem conveys, a rare weekend indeed. A Rare Weekend A wondrous weekend, Bordering dreamlike… After tiring drive, [...]

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     Hand-in-hand to great writing in 2018
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    By All About Writing
    In Creative Writing Courses, Newsletters
    Posted December 1, 2017

    Hand-in-hand to great writing in 2018

    There’s a paradox to writing: it is at once an intensely solitary activity, and at the same time is dependent on the good opinion of a vast community of readers. […]

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     August Newsletter:  Words on water or immortal prose?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing, Newsletters
    Posted August 8, 2017

    August Newsletter: Words on water or immortal prose?

    Trish and I have just spent six weeks slowly working our way down the Thames River in our narrowboat Patience. We’re on the Grand Union Canal now, moored up in […]

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    In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard return In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard returns to George Saunders’s "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain" for a piece of profound insight into revision – and the development of a writer’s voice. http://ow.ly/iCsO50MKwyf #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
    Here's the latest in our 'hidden secrets of writin Here's the latest in our 'hidden secrets of writing' blog series, highlighting books published by past students of our Creative Writing Course or Mentoring Programme. Read an extract, check out the  writing skills and techniques we identify, and learn from the tips suggested by our analysis of the passage. Today we look at a passage from Limerence by Vincent Pienaar published by  @penguinrandon
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    What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten skills you need to master to write compelling fiction or creative non-fiction. http://ow.ly/MX0C50MFcgT #aspiringauthors #writersofinstagram #writers #writing #amwriting #fiction #nonfiction #writingtips #writingadvice #authortips #authoradvice #writeradvice #writertips #writersecrets #writingclarity #writingcommunity #getpublished
    Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets of writing, highlighting books published by past students of our Creative Writing Course or Mentoring Programme. We'll take an extract, identify writing skills and techniques and offer a tip or two (or three) suggested by our analysis of the chosen passage. The third in the series is Brave Lotus Flower Rides the Dragon by Tracy Todd @bravelotusflower published by @tmpublishers
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    Writers love deadlines, don't they? Last minute de Writers love deadlines, don't they? Last minute deadlines... Enter our December/January Flash Fiction Challenge by midnight on 31 January and stand a chance to win a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 / £ 150 or a voucher to the same value to use on one of our courses or programmes. Good luck!

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    In his Monday Motivation this week, Richard explor In his Monday Motivation this week, Richard explores (with the help of a swan) the idea that the magic of art rests on the invisible scaffolding that artifice provides. http://ow.ly/3zjT50MEr7N #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
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