Using transition words in your text can help you enhance the readability. Used well, these words help your text flow. They show the relationship between phrases, sentences and paragraphs. They demonstrate how thoughts and ideas are connected. …
Another event from craft maestro Daniel David Wallace, Find Your Readers Summit July 24-27 was a four-day online event. Delegates learned to expand writing craft skills, share more work, build an audience, and enhance creativity. Breaking the mold of writing as a solitary experience, this event showcased the ways to connect with other writers and readers. …
Lose yourself in timeless fiction from literary greats, a collection of one hundred stories in unabridged audio from BBC Sounds.
A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats from Austen to Elliot, Dickens to Maupassant, Conan Doyle to Wharton. …
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Just once you’d like an agent to characterise your work as interesting and original. …
From a master of crime fiction, Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing carry a lot of weight.
Leonard began his career writing Westerns before turning to genre crime fiction. Popular and prolific, his bestsellers include Glitz, Get Shorty, Maximum Bob, and Rum Punch. More importantly, Leonard has standing with the literary crowd. …
BBC Teach and First Story collaborate with contemporary writers to produce a new set of creative writing resources, Inside the Writer’s Mind. A mix of video and document resources, six of the films in the BBC series are accompanied by a free classroom PDF by First Story. …
The notion of final-third frenzy comes from a Reedsy webinar The Top Suspense Novel Pitfalls. Taking the broad category of suspense novels as more complex forms of fiction, there’s a lot can go wrong in engineering the plot and structure. …
The fourth annual National Writing Day 2020 takes place on 24 June. In the context of a global pandemic, activities necessarily shift online.
The theme of National Writing Day 2020 is “One day”. The aim of the day is to get us all writing. Write alone, write with others in your household, write with others on Zoom.
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What’s been stopping you from producing that magnum opus? From the opening of Jurgen Wolff’s 2007 Your Writing Coach, what follows is our take on his Seven Deadly Fears of Writing; those fears that stop would-be, and even some professional writers getting on with the job of writing.
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I’m attending QuaranCon 2021, a fantasy convention organized by Virginia McClain and a handful of volunteers who decided to put on a virtual convention that would be free to all involved – a convention you can attend from the safety of your own living room. …