The Best Writing Tip: Submit Like a Ninja

BY LAURINDA LIND I’ve had bushels of writing advice dumped at my feet, most of it inspirational for a day or so. Show, don’t tell. Kill your darlings. Throw away the first page. Yeah, yeah, I agreed, dashing off short stories that snoozed for years in binders and file folders. I wrote crappy poems. I […]

Best Writing Tip: Get Out of Your Own Way

writing outdoors

When my life upended in 2018, one of the things I did to re-anchor was to take a course of workshops in ‘Creative Writing Outside’. It turned out to be the first of an ongoing series that I come back to season after season. A disparate group of writers gathers on the exposed North Norfolk […]

The Best Writing Tip: You Are the God of an A4 Piece of Paper

Creative writer creating a new world

BY TESS GADD ‘What?’ my lecturer asked me in her I-only-baby-my-children-and-not-my-students voice. She looked up from her laptop, glasses holding on to the edge of her nose for dear life. ‘I want to make this change, but I’m scared it won’t work out. What do you think? Would I get worse marks if I did […]