Developing your craft

The goal is to generate as much material as possible – first draft writing – and the emphasis is on the act of generation, rather...

This is the second of my blogs, offering some thoughts about how drama can be used to improve your fiction.

Actors impersonate. And in...

A guest post from Derek Neale, Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University:

This is the first in a short series of blogs I’ll be...

I don’t mean that it wasn’t grammatically correct or it didn’t evoke some spontaneous laughter. Rather the writer behind the words on...

After a ten-year absence, Britain’s leading dramatist Stephen Poliakoff has returned to the cinema with Glorious 39, a tense wartime thriller...

Write a story in 247 words. Phew! That’s a tall order, right? I write longer notes to the milkman.

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