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Reward your Writer-Self this Winter

Midwinter is a notoriously difficult time of year. It’s cold, it’s dark, it’s cold, and every screen and shop window and…

Clare Fisher
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Writing Resolutions for the New Year

Find a comfortable spot where you can write undisturbed for fifteen minutes.
First, write down three to five things about your…

Clare Fisher
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Vivid radio worlds

When it comes to creating vivid radio worlds that enable characters to ‘live’, it’s often helpful to start small and think…

Christopher William Hill
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Vivid radio worlds

It might seem a tired old cliché to suggest that ‘the pictures are better on radio’, but it’s hard to disagree….

Christopher William Hill
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Listen, Don’t Speak

Go to a café, a station, a park: somewhere with lots of strangers talking, eating, milling about. Sit quietly in a…

Laura Barnett
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Listen, Don’t Speak

There’s a thing creative writing students often say to me. They’ve heard a well-known author, or a fellow emerging one, talk…

Laura Barnett
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Face Your Writing Fears

Part One: Set a timer for five minutes and write down whatever comes into your mind when you hear…

Clare Fisher
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Face Your Writing Fears

Fear is a big part of writing. First, there’s what I’ll call the ‘outside’ fears: how will others receive it? What…

Clare Fisher
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Poetry

Translation Exercise

Have a look at the Poetry Translation Centre’s website. They have lots of poems that are available in their original language…

Katrina Naomi
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Try Translation

Have you ever wanted to have a go at carrying out a translation but not known where to start? Or do…

Katrina Naomi
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Writing Competition Tips

In order to write well, you should see writing as a competitive sport. As with sport, you need to practise. Then…

Cynan Jones
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Interrogate your story

The problem with entering a writing competition is that, once you enter, you can’t do anything to improve your chances of…

Cynan Jones
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Why it matters

Think of a ‘true’ incident in your past. An incident in which something mattered. Maybe it was the moment you realised…

Kerry Young
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Why it matters

To be authentic, and have an authentic voice, we must write from our experience. We take what was or is real…

Kerry Young
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How to prevent a saggy middle

As a prompt to get you started, choose a picture from a magazine or a postcard; or throw a couple of…

Sanjida Kay
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How to prevent a saggy middle

I’m usually impressed by the calibre of writing on Arvon courses. What lets some writers down is not so much their…

Sanjida Kay