Writing Tips to Accelerate Your Development: Expert Advice
Expert writing tips to accelerate your development: rewrite strategies, building momentum, conquering your inner critic. Free advice from professional authors.
Writing Ambition: Stop Asking Permission and Start Writing
If I could give my fifteen-year-old self one piece of writing advice, it wouldn't be about craft or technique. It would be this: be ambitious. Not about prizes or fame, but about what you believe [...]
A Code of Conduct for Writers
These thoughts were inspired by one of the writers at our Venice Writing Retreat. He wondered whether there was a code for writers – a set of moral precepts, guiderails, if you like, that [...]
Character vs Story: What Should Come First?
Should you start with character development or plot structure? This fundamental writing question sparked lively debate in our latest Q&A webinar. Jo-Anne and Richard share insights on both [...]
Why Your Opening Scene Might Be Killing Your Story
Discover why most story openings fail and learn 3 proven techniques to write compelling first scenes that hook readers. Includes practical writing exercise and expert analysis from a working [...]
The Road to Publication: Expert Author Publishing Advice
Discover the path to publishing success with insights from debut author Bonnie Espie, established thriller writer Marina Auer, and publisher Stevlan Vermeulen. Our Road to Publication webinar [...]
Unlock Gripping Stories: The Power of What Your Character Wants
Unlock gripping stories by understanding the power of what your character wants! Jo-Anne Richards shares essential writing craft tips for fiction & memoir to create compelling characters and [...]
Setting your writing intentions
I’m not sure that anything I’ve ever resolved to do at the start of the year has come to fruition. Something about the demands made by new year’s resolutions, the way they wag their fingers in my [...]
Mining Your Inner World to Create Characters
Creating compelling characters can feel like an impossible task, especially when writing characters whose experiences and personalities seem far removed from our own. In both this blog and my [...]
The Art of Restraint in Writing
Do you find yourself over-explaining emotions or situations in your writing? In both this blog and my next subscriber-only Monday Writing Motivation mailer, I look into the power of restraint in [...]
Lessons in creating authentic fiction from Salman Rushdie
Writers, are often told to ‘write what you know’, but what does that really mean when we’re creating fictional worlds? Richard’s recent subscribers only writing motivation mailer [...]
