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Compound Adjectives Part 2

Write down the first ten compound adjectives you come across in your everyday reading. This could be in articles, fiction, poetry…

Ashley Hickson-Lovence
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Fiction

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Compound Adjectives Part 1

I think prose writers can learn a lot from poetry. For me the more poetic features in a novel or short…

Ashley Hickson-Lovence
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Non-Fiction & Life Writing

Finding Your Voice

This is one of those phrases that I find perplexing; it leaves one feeling that one’s voice is ‘lost’. Down behind…

Jay Griffiths
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Non-Fiction & Life Writing

Channel Your Passions

Decide on a subject for a short piece. Think about what that subject needs, in order to do justice to it….

Jay Griffiths
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Theatre

Alphabet Scenes

Set yourself a location and create two characters with a pre-existing relationship who find themselves in that location. Then set a…

Evan Placey
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Theatre

Dialogue: On the Page vs Spoken

Every scriptwriter dreads hearing: I don’t believe a person would say that. Or it’s close relative: I don’t…

Evan Placey
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Poetry

Bar Napkin Sonnets

Poets and critics have used various metaphors to describe the sonnet – a box, a little machine – and some contemporary…

Hannah Lowe
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Poetry

Sonnets: Freedom Within Constraints

The sonnet has a big reputation. Alongside their close cultural association with Shakespeare (who wrote 154 of them) sonnets are often…

Hannah Lowe
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Purposeful Dialogue

Dialogue doesn’t just happen. It is crafted to serve a purpose. So, don’t have your dialogue just sit there like a…

Kerry Young
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Creating Dialogue with Purpose

Create a character. Imagine them in as much detail as you can. For example, in terms of their gender, age, race,…

Kerry Young
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Do It Yourself

So much of writing is focused on ‘getting published’ by someone else: a magazine, a newspaper or a publishing house.
If…

Joanna Walsh
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Non-Human Sounds

Go for a walk, take a notebook and note down all the sounds you hear.
Don’t privilege one sound over another…

Joanna Walsh
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Film & TV

Writing a Movie Treatment

The dreaded movie treatment often often prompts one question: ‘Do I have to write one?‘
To start:…

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Film & TV

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Researching Your Play or Screenplay

Whether it’s a script set in Medieval times or a story from your own life, research is important. But it’s also…

Alexis Zegerman
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Poetry

Becoming Other To Yourself

“I am another. If brass wakes up a trumpet, it is not its fault. This is obvious to me: I…

Will Harris
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Poetry

Pulling Away the Tent Flaps

In Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific, where a photograph of the ethnographer’s tent among Kiriwinan…

Will Harris