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17th December 2020
Just tweet your queries to @wordsallowed or @writers_artists between 1600 and 1700 (GMT) today (Weds 29th May) and include the hash-tag #...
Dedicated Genre Advice
You are interested in articles on specific writing genres; e.g. historical fiction, crime, children's, speculative fiction etc. (Influenced by genre tags above)
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13th October 2020
In this article, author Tani Hershman discusses how, through reading other writers' work, she first came across the gift of permission - and how...
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12th October 2020
As YA author Laura Powell releases Witch Fire, the highly-anticipated sequel to Burn Mark, she provides valuable insight into one of writing's great...
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12th October 2020
This is the first in a series of three blogs by crime and screenwriter M. R. Hall. In this post, he poses questions that help guide your writing and...
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24th January 2021
Emma Blackburn, editorial director for picture books at Bloomsbury Publishing, gives her top tips for getting started on your picture books.
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10th December 2020
How can you not be interested in the fact that Nelson, like everyone else on HMS Victory, stank like a mouldy dishcloth, and was back on duty an...