Best Writing Tip: Get Out of Your Own Way
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
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 […]
The Best Writing Tip: All Your Words Aren’t Brilliant
BY REV DR JILL RICHARDSON I got my first World Religions paper returned with an ‘A’ slashed across the top. This should have elicited joy in a student at a high-level university, but I gave it side-eye. The content had baffled me, so how could I have written a paper proving I’d understood what I […]