A second chance to book for the Venice Retreat
Venice is always full of surprises. When we opened the lists for our first two-week-long retreat, back in January, we had no idea that we’d fill every vacancy within a month. That was our first [...]
You’re invited: Follow your writing dreams down Venice’s Grand Canal
When Peter Benchley first visited Venice, he wrote to his editor at the New Yorker: “Streets full of water. Please advise”. Venice has both fascinated and repelled writers for centuries, and [...]
Let’s help each other make this a year for writing
Welcome to this month’s newsletter Many of our community, it seems, have earmarked 2018 as their year for writing. We’ve had so many requests for help and support, we’ve decided to dedicate [...]
Our Venice Retreat – just one place available
What would our fourth annual Venice Writing Retreat give you? That’s easy, if we quote one of our past participants, who called it “a life-changing experience”. It will certainly provide [...]
Venice Retreat – let the magic of The Floating City inspire you
What do you need in order to write well? Think of your life: a constant round of tasks and duties. Too many things to fit in the day. And demands? Oh my goodness, let’s not even start. Everyone [...]
Venice Writing Retreat – bookings now open
When Peter Benchley first visited Venice, he wrote to his editor at the New Yorker: “Streets full of water. Please advise”. Venice has both fascinated and repelled writers for centuries, and [...]
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. And while, necessarily, [...]
Use stories to make sense of life
Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What we’ve been doing with you for the past ten years is talking to you about the stories you wish to tell. Life consists of “one damned thing [...]
Monday Motivation: Turn the act of writing into a ceremony
So, just occasionally, when writing has become a burden – or perhaps, at that moment when you anticipate that it will become a burden – here’s an idea… It was inspired by immediate experience. [...]
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 Paddington Basin in the heart of [...]
July newsletter: upcoming courses, community news, writing challenge and more
We at Allaboutwriting are celebrating creativity. Through our offerings and our news this month, we are reaching out to like-minded souls who long for something more – for the imagination which [...]
Challenges and opportunities, grist to to a writer’s mill
Current and forthcoming courses and retreats Our Creative Writing Online Course kicked off on Tuesday – but it’s by no means too late to sign up for a rollicking ride through the hills and dales [...]
