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Your Characters Must Be Real Enough for the Audience to Care About Them

All stories depict a series of events that occur over time (whether it’s an hour, day or years). These stories involve…

Kerry Young

Exercises

Write and Frame Each Single Shot

I started out as an actor, and the joke I tell when people ask me is that I’d been in so…

Freddie Machin

Tips

Reveal to the Director What the Audience Will See Onscreen

A screenplay has to serve more than one function. First and foremost, it has to sell your story to a producer,…

Freddie Machin

Exercises

Fictionalise Two Elements to Find the Why

In Satori in Paris, Jack Kerouac said ‘…made up stories and romances about what would happen IF are…

Russ Litten

Exercises

Fictionalise Two Elements to Find the Why

In Satori in Paris, Jack Kerouac said ‘…made up stories and romances about what would happen IF are…

Russ Litten

Tips

Autofiction – Turn on the Light and Don’t be Scared

For anyone wanting to make sense of their own life through writing, you could do worse than to allow yourself the…

Russ Litten

Tips

Mindfulness for Creative Writing

Practising mindfulness can help us to maintain a moment-by-moment, calm, present awareness of our thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. We can…

Elise Valmorbida

Exercises

Mindfully Observing the Sky

André Gide wrote: ‘The word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be necessitated by the…

Elise Valmorbida

Exercises

Get Under the Skin of Your Biographee

Freud once wrote that ‘Anyone who writes a biography is committed to lies, concealments, hypocrisy, flattery and even to hiding his…

Adelle Stripe

Tips

Flip the Sans Serif

You have finally completed your final draft, having worked your manuscript through various stages like a sculptor rendering stone, polishing and…

Adelle Stripe

Exercises

Exercise: Bringing Memory to Life

Bring to the front of your mind a memory that you can’t let go of, or perhaps like me, there’s something…

Andrew McMillan

Tips

The Poetry of Remembering

A conversation I was having with my parents recently led me to recall a friend I had for one of the…

Andrew McMillan

Exercises

Exercise: Making The Unreal Feel Real

Taking the example Salmon Rushdie gives of writing a flying carpet and imagining what needs to be considered in order to…

Lara Williams

Tips

Making The Absurd Feel Real

One of my all-time favourite television series is the nineties supernatural show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. For those who…

Lara Williams

Tips

Mixing Formats

Aspiring (or even published) writers often worry about mixing genres. We worry that it will make the novel or story collection…

Kirsty Logan

Exercises

Exercise: A Hint of the Horrors to Come

When writing a story intended to unnerve, frighten or thrill a reader, you generally won’t want to start with the horror…

Kirsty Logan

Tips & Exercises

Your Characters Must Be Real Enough for the Audience to Care About Them

Write and Frame Each Single Shot

Reveal to the Director What the Audience Will See Onscreen

Fictionalise Two Elements to Find the Why

Fictionalise Two Elements to Find the Why

Autofiction – Turn on the Light and Don’t be Scared

Mindfulness for Creative Writing

Mindfully Observing the Sky

Get Under the Skin of Your Biographee

Flip the Sans Serif

Exercise: Bringing Memory to Life

The Poetry of Remembering

Exercise: Making The Unreal Feel Real

Making The Absurd Feel Real

Mixing Formats

Exercise: A Hint of the Horrors to Come

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