Developing your craft

My most treasured childhood books all have little puffins on their spines. Roald Dahl’s stories sparked my love...

Discovering what type of writers’ group you’d like to be part of (Rule 1) and setting your goals (Rule 2) will help your meetings be...

She felt the impetus to get started on her first novel when she had two small children and was pregnant with her third. She was also...

This month we’ll focus on rule number two, which many of you have already hinted at: establish the writing group’s goals.

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Pace is one of the trickiest things to get right, and one of the most important things to plan. At school, children are taught that a story should...

I used to write hard-hitting teenage books about modern problems: teenage pregnancy, the dangers of going off to meet internet friends, how to...