Writing Outside the Box

In order to make memories, you have to actually do things! Travelling, day trips, evenings out - it's all part of living a better life...

Now I've told you a bit about reconsolidating, you might be wondering why it's actually important. Here are a few reasons: 1. Integrity....

This week's reading is The Hunter's Wife by Anthony Doerr. If you missed it, you can find it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...

This week we're going to be focusing on setting. Generally speaking, settings are either fictional or real. If you're going for a...

Third person is another more common perspective, alongside first person. This means using the pronouns 'he', 'she', 'they', etc. So why...

It's a new week and another new theme - this week we're focusing on point of view. Point of view is a great follow on from character:...

This week's reading focus was The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson. Whilst it isn't as modern as the other pieces we've looked at...

One really important consideration for your piece of writing is how and when to introduce your main character. When? I think it's fair to...

In this post, I am going to be focusing on how to give your character a background. This week's reading does this particularly well, and...

This week we are looking at characterisation. This means how to create believable characters, how much you should know about your...

This is the last post specifically on dialogue for a while, but next week we'll be focusing on character. Characterisation and dialogue...

I have talked about Meat by Terry Bisson a lot this week, and who could blame me? It's a fabulous piece of writing! You can find it here...

Now we've talked about why dialogue is important, it's time to think about writing some. So what are my top tips for writing dialogue? 1....

This month we are going to be focusing on features of your writing. This week is dialogue, then character, point of view, setting, and...

The flash fiction I put under weekly reading this week was the winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Awards in February 2018. You can find it...

The next type of prompt I'm going to be discussing is something that I used to use all the time as a child. I'd get family members to...

In my last post I talked about using sentence starters as prompts. The good news is they are something I continue to find useful in my...

So you've read my first post and you've bought your first notebook, maybe you've even tried some free writing or observational work. But...

So you've decided you want to write something. You sit down at your laptop or put your pen to paper, but you don't know where to start. ...