Writing Outside the Box

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...

This week's reading is very short and comes again from the Bath Flash Fiction Awards. This piece is called The Undertakers' Jolly and is...

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

Second person is much more obscure in story writing. This means using the pronouns 'you', 'your', 'yourself', etc. So why write in the...

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:...