Developing your idea

Q: When do you become a writer?

Thomas E. Kennedy: When you’re starting out and have published little, maybe nothing at all yet, it is...

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

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...

The idea being that you would then be able to attach the report to your covering letter (or begging letter as I used to think of them...

When I wrote my first novel, 23 years ago, I had a freedom that comes a novelist’s way but once – the freedom of being a hitherto unpublished...