Andrew Wille

Plotting Workshop

The Writers’ Workshop Getting Publishing Day was great fun. It was good to see some old faces and meet plenty

I’m planning for a workshop on plotting I’m leading at the Getting Published Day on Saturday. I went online earlier to read

As I teach creative writing, taking a writing course might seem like a busman’s holiday, or teaching grandad to suck eggs … or

My book of the year is Lucia Berlin’s A Manual For Cleaning Women. It might even be my book of the

What are you giving the reader on every page? Let’s revisit that idea of giving, as we considered in the writing experiment

(Updated June 2019 and February 2020 to include further links: this one is ongoing.) A subject that comes up frequently in

If you really care about things, practise what you preach. If you are a writer or an agent or a

It’s felt a bit of a grim year for events in the wider world: terror, Brexit, xenophobia, squabbles on social media.

The first version of this post described how I got emotional at a workshop at York this year, but every time

Last night I was very happy to take part in the inaugural Words Away literary salon run by Kellie Jackson

This is an exercise to help with revising, but it could also be used in other contexts. It builds on Friday Writing

If possible, the first time you do this, rather than reading ahead, read each stage and follow its instructions before