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Random Nouns Writers’ Prompt

My writers group over on DDW’s Discourse served up a Random Nouns Writers’ Prompt entitled The Jar of Nouns.

Interviewed at the Hay Literary Festival, Dame Jacqueline Wilson wonders are people losing ‘reading stamina?’ Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s

Attention spans are getting shorter, reading choice is getting bigger; which is why writers have to include five items on

Sooner or later in the process, every author faces editing the ‘crutch’ words. These are the habitual words or phrases

“Can I just take a few details,” Jane asked as the unremarkably short, unremarkably thin and unremarkably… average man sat

In a previous post I looked at how character arcs rise and fall and promised to look at applying character

There are plenty of beneficial writers’ tools, but a weekend of editing has taught me something: Grammarly’s good but not

Part of the editing process is considering how character arcs rise and fall in the course of the novel. Movement,

This Revising and Editing Workshop is another event from writing coach Daniel David Wallace. To give its’ full title ,

Under this year’s theme ‘Let’s Connect!’, Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is happening between 9 to 15 May. The official