Developing your craft

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...

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...