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Plotting: Conflict, Complication, Curiosity, and Connection

What’s the conflict, where’s the conflict? These questions often arise in creative writing, and sometimes I find them tiresome. Perhaps it’s

Kellie Jackson of Words Away and I have lined up two further day-long masterclasses on craft for the summer term.

I’m really happy to introduce a guest writing experiment from Zoe Gilbert. She’s chosen a topic that I myself encountered

Last month I felt very privileged to see Anna Burns talk about writing and read from her wonderful, prize-winning novel

Following on from the Character Questionnaire exercise that came out of last week’s masterclass, here is another writing experiment to help

On Saturday I led a masterclass on Character and Setting in conjunction with Kellie Jackson of Words Away. It’s the

In approximate order of reading, and including books published in other years, the books that I most enjoyed reading this

After a successful masterclass on the Craft of Voice at the end of November, Kellie Jackson of Words Away and

Kellie Jackson has posted a Q&A on her blog for our 24 November masterclass The Craft of Voice. It’s voice

I recently went to the excellent exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the Victoria & Albert Museum. I

A quick break from my summer break to say that we’re now taking bookings for the craft masterclasses that I’m

Putting It Through The Typewriter Again One of the most useful tasks that writers can give themselves during revising is