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     May Newsletter: You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Newsletters
    Posted May 8, 2019

    May Newsletter: You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service

    You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service Last month we asked you to participate in our survey and to answer two questions. Well, […]

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     Learn the secrets to great stories at our Stow Story Weekend
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Creative Writing Courses
    Posted July 17, 2018

    Learn the secrets to great stories at our Stow Story Weekend

    Stories drive us. They’re what help us make meaning – and so, sense of our world. They help us make decisions about our own existence. Stories of one sort or […]

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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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     How we can help you, community successes, writing challenge results – and the new challenge
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Newsletters
    Posted March 9, 2017

    How we can help you, community successes, writing challenge results – and the new challenge

    It’s what we hear most often from people who seek our help: they need to develop a daily habit of writing, and they want our support and mentoring in doing […]

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    Here's a tip to give your writing the extra edge w Here's a tip to give your writing the extra edge when you enter our April/May Writing Challenge.⁠
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All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner 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.⁠
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Your character is working with a new colleague, who has only recently been employed. In the course of this scene, we (your readers) should begin to suspect that the colleague is not human at all, but a robot. Don’t spell this out to us. Give us the details which raise our suspicions. Your character may or may not yet interpret these clues correctly.⁠
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Write no more than 250 words. Submit your entry online via our website by midnight on 31 May 2021. Entry is free.
    Today on the blog, Richard Beynon discusses how wr Today on the blog, Richard Beynon discusses how writing can help you think about your life and yourself. #MondayWritingMotivation
    Here's a tip to give your writing the extra edge w Here's a tip to give your writing the extra edge when you enter our April/May Writing Challenge.⁠
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All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner 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.⁠
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Your character is working with a new colleague, who has only recently been employed. In the course of this scene, we (your readers) should begin to suspect that the colleague is not human at all, but a robot. Don’t spell this out to us. Give us the details which raise our suspicions. Your character may or may not yet interpret these clues correctly.⁠
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Write no more than 250 words. Submit your entry online via our website by midnight on 31 May 2021. Entry is free.
    Join us on Thursday, 15 April for our monthly free Join us on Thursday, 15 April for our monthly free webinar. This month, we're tackling the question: What makes a good baddie?
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15:30 UK time, 16:30 South African time. Register now via the link in our bio. 
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    Today on the blog, Richard Beynon talks writing dy Today on the blog, Richard Beynon talks writing dynamic scenes and characters. #MondayWritingMotivation
    YOU'RE INVITED 👏🏽 to our My Octopus Teacher YOU'RE INVITED 👏🏽 to our My Octopus Teacher Storytelling Workshop ❤️
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Netflix’s My Octopus Teacher has taken the world by storm. Its string of festival victories culminates now in both a Bafta and an Oscar nomination 🐙
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On April 10, it will form the centrepiece of an online workshop in which we explore how the protagonist of the documentary – and his octopus teacher – both exemplify key elements of The Hero’s Journey 📚
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Join Richard Beynon and Michele Rowe for an interactive couple of hours for  fascinating insights into the heart of story. 
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Saturday 10 April, 11am South African time, 10am UK time. Cost: £20 / ZAR325. Link in bio.
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    21 Apr

    Well worth watching! #camlitfest

    Cambridge Literary Festival@camlitfest

    Also huge thanks to our partners, @NewStatesman!

    If you missed the event, don’t worry – you can still purchase tickets and watch online until 2 May.

    https://cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/product/george-saunders-spring-21/

    21 Apr

    A revision exercise for writers from George Saunders: take anything you’ve written and cut it in half. Try it. Thank you @camlitfest

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    • Win a voucher to our courses when you enter our April/May Flash Fiction Challenge
      Win a voucher to our courses when you enter our April/May Flash Fiction Challenge
      April 1, 2021
    • March Newsletter: Turn your writing dreams into reality
      March Newsletter: Turn your writing dreams into reality
      February 23, 2021
    • Unveiling the winners of our December 2020 to January 2021 Flash Fiction Challenge
      Unveiling the winners of our December 2020 to January 2021 Flash Fiction Challenge
      February 9, 2021
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