Writing Outside the Box

This month is going to be all about how to use your own personal experiences in fiction. This week we'll look into making memories -...

Realistically, the more relatable your character is, the more likely people are to keep reading your story. There are certain ways to do...

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....

So you might have done some of the dialogue prompts I suggested in my last prompt, but you might still be thinking 'why should I use...

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

Another great prompt comes in the form of using old stories and tales in order to create new work. This can be fairy tales, mythology,...

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 prompts we will be looking at are abstract concepts. These will be really helpful ideas to have in your notebook as they are...

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 started writing in your notebook already, but what else can you write about? This week, I will be focusing on different kinds...

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. ...