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Do a THAT return

Back in the mists of time, when I was working on my very first novel, I received my very first set…

Chrissie Manby
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Permission not to write

When you’re a writer – particularly when you start to make money from your writing – it can feel as though…

Chrissie Manby
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Non-Fiction & Life Writing

Live your subject

Non-fiction writers live their books before they write them. From biography to travel to books about music, art or sheep, for…

Horatio Clare
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An audience of one  

One of the many pleasures about writing for radio is that you have an audience of one. This solo audience member…

Polly Thomas
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Can you show, rather than tell?

One of the most popular radio devices is the narrative voice, inside the head. Usually given to the lead character, this…

Polly Thomas
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A poem is made of words and silent words

When I was a child, what I believed to be the power of silent thought terrified me. I hadn’t learnt that…

Jen Hadfield
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Taking a character for a walk

Begin by inventing ten or twelve separate characters, all different from each other. For each one, choose five adjectives that will…

Gillian Cross
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Seeing the world through different eyes

When I was young, I read pretty much all the time. Most of what I read was fiction and I was…

Gillian Cross
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Radical Reinvention

One way to think about writing is as a tool of curiosity. A way of finding out about the world rather…

Andrew Miller
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Improve your writing through cutting back

If you don’t know how to begin to improve your writing through cutting back, you might like to do the exercise…

Romesh Gunesekera
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The importance of rewriting

For many writers, the pleasure of writing comes in rewriting. It is not everyone’s favourite aspect of writing, but the sooner…

Romesh Gunesekera
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Poetry

Write towards the discomfort

A very simple act of reversal: conventionally we might begin a writing exercise with a prompt given to us and write…

Andrew McMillan Poetry Writing Course Arvon
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Poetry

Poetic truth

Once, when I was reading a Selima Hill collection, I noticed that she’d used an epigraph by the poet Rita-Ann Higgins;…

Andrew McMillan Poetry Writing Course Arvon
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