There’s a day for everything, and Monday 14 November is National I Love to Write Day.
Delaware author John Riddle wanted a day set aside so that everyone could spend some time writing. “It doesn’t matter what people write, as long as they write what they want to.” …
October 16-19 marks this Autumn’s Escape the Plot Forest Writers Summit 2021.
Under Daniel David Wallace’s expert curation, a community of independent authors comes together in four days of craft sessions and writing prompts to tackle the difficult issue of plotting a novel. …
We’re currently listening to The Everywoman (BBC Radio 4) and BBC Sounds. This neat two-part documentary poses the question:
If there is an ‘Everyman’ in literature, can the experiences of a female character also be universal?
Novelist Sarah Hall (Burntcoat, Sudden Traveller, Madame Zero, The Wolf Border and others) goes in search of the Everywoman. …
We’re currently watching Brandon Sanderson’s Free Writing Course online. Fantasy author Sanderson’s 2020 BYU Lecture Series – Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, is online for free on Youtube. …
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Delighted to see Winning at Épée breaking an Amazon Top Ten. Broken down by genre and category Amazon Top Ten – fencing books is our specific chart.
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Thanks to a seasonal re-run we’re currently listening to What is a Story? on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2015. Starting with an examination of our early experiences of stories, Marina Warner looks at the world of contemporary fiction in this ten-part documentary.
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Three new Essential Short Guides are available now at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books as well as the Proactivity Press online shop. …
I have books listed online at Waterstones online store, thanks to the UK’s ISBN registry via A.C. Nielsen. Waterstones has the paperbacks listed at the full retail price.
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A few days on from Escape the Plot Forest Summit, I’m still digesting all that material and need to go over some of it again!
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I just spent five days attending the Escape the Plot Forest Virtual Summit, a writers’ conference organised by Daniel David Wallace, ex-pat writer, editor and teacher of creative writing based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Promoted as a complete guide to the plotting process, “first step to first reader” approach to telling stories, by common agreement of the 3000+ attendees, this far exceeded expectations of a virtual event. …