Write for Your Life

This guest post from Mary Ward offers practical advice for writers when tackling the research process, including recommended fact checking websites and some good old-fashioned common sense...

This post points you to a fantastic guide to putting a book proposal together, followed by my own account of unconventionally attempting to get a literary agent. Left: The first of many devices used to write my novel. Right: Reading at Hay in 2004...

The second part of Write for Your Life’s chinwag with author, Jean Hannah Edelstein, where she talks about the somewhat trial and error process of marketing her book, Himglish and Femalese. ...

This post shows Microsoft Word users how to use Document Map to write smarter and make your way around long documents, such as novels, collected articles and essays. There are lots of alternatives when it comes to writing software...

This blog post sees Iain (hello) get all hot under the collar about the idea that we should all write, write, write if we are to call ourselves writers and fight our way through bouts of writer’s block. In my relatively short time in the blogosphere, I’ve come to understand a couple of things. Fi...

This guest post from Sophie Johnson looks at the importance of structure and how it can improve your writing as well as providing an insight into her approach. We learn from a young age that all stories should have a beginning, middle and end...

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This guest post comes from Rex Davies, poet and expert on public speaking. He’s here to share his top tips on performing your writing to an audience. They’re most useful. ...

Okay, so as I mentioned in my post about prioritising your priorities, I’m spending much of this summer editing my novel into shape. That’s because I now have a literary agent, which is very exciting, although not what this post is about. If...