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Acrostics – give them a go!
An acrostic is an age-old form of visual patterning. It is rather like those Wordsearch puzzles as some people place them in a grid, but the technique can work within creative writing. Basically, you use the letters of a word to create descriptions, or a line of...
Being a writer … it’s in the gut!
Why be a writer? Writing is not really something you decide to do one day in order to earn some extra money. It comes from a deeply internal, guttural desire to get words down and your message out. Do you feel like this? Writing is natural. Writing is good for us....
What should I even write?
What should I write - fiction or non-fiction? Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay Everyone says fiction, of course, because those are the famous authors we know about, the J.K.Rowlings and the Stephen Kings of this world. They are the superstars of authoring....
Your writing obsession: why, who, what?
So, you think you’ve got a book in you. Congratulations. Now to the hard bit of writing it. This idea we have of writers sitting around in an inspirational woodland (like this picture) or beach setting is not really realistic. I’m sitting at my desk writing...
