A little while ago I set a writespiration challenge to write for 60 seconds, using the word silence as your inspiration. It was so successful I thought I would re run it. Like last time don't look at …
Annual Bloggers Bash Awards – NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
It's the 1st of July, know what that means? It's ONE MONTH TO GO till the first ever Annual Bloggers Bash Party which is going to be in London on the 1st of August. To find out more visit the Annual …
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A Final Call For Entries!
This is it - Last chance to enter Esther's fabulous Flash Fiction competition. TODAY is the deadline. …
5 Top Tips for Writing Chapter One – Lessons from the YA genre
There’s something wrong with my opening chapter. I’ve edited it eight times, two of those were major overhauls, the rest tweaks. But still… just plain wrong, and the closer I get to the end of draft …
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Writespiration #45
A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to write the best worst opening line you could think of. Well now I am asking you to write the best WORST ending you can come up with. Once again, there will be a …
The Lost Art of Penmanship – Evolution or Regression?
I made a point recently about the lack of 'actual' writing I do. You know, with my hand and a real life pen. The post discussed Distributed Cognition, a concept that debates where the boundaries of …
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