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Write On! Features: The Power Of Poetry by Helen Aitchison

21 March 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Helen Aitchison I remember being at school and winning a poetry competition. It was first / junior school and I would have been around seven or eight. When I went to middle school and on to high school / secondary school, I became less interested in poetry. Mainly, because it ...

Write On! Features: Creating Sustainable Writing And Book Gifts by Lizzie Chantree

07 March 2025 News, WriteOn Features

International bestselling author, award-winning inventor and product designer, Lizzie Chantree, has been featured on television and radio. She discovered her love of writing fiction when her children were little and now writes books (many based in Essex) full of friendship and laughter, about women who are far stronger than they ...

Write On! Features: Converting Prose to Script – The Audio Drama Adventure by Emily Inkpen

28 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Emily Inkpen With the Pen-to-Print Audio Drama Award deadline fast approaching (find out more here), I’m providing some pointers on how to write for audio, especially if you’re already a prose writer but don’t know how to make that leap. Audio drama is a brilliant medium for any writer to explore. ...

Write On! Features: Lessons On Cosy Crime – The Mysterious Life Of Agatha Christie And Arthur Conan Doyle

21 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Dr Charlotte Baker The whole point of a good detective story was that it must be somebody obvious but at the same time, for some reason, you would then find that it was not obvious, that he could not possibly have done it. Though really, of course, he had done ...

Write On! Features: Journey Of A Storyteller by Viv Foster

07 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Viv Foster I've always loved adventures. Almost exclusively they have involved mountains and always, until recently, they have been intensely physical and outdoors. I was born in London, destined for the Ford car factory or a mundane job in the big city. I was saved by the locally owned outdoor ...

Write On! Features: Who Are You Writing For? by Vic Howard

17 January 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Vic Howard My early working life was spent in the world of advertising and at that time vocabulary and column width were important factors considered by newspapers. The most important newspaper then was The Times, which had a column width of about two and a half inches (63mm). The most ...

Write On! Features: Social Media – Friend Or Foe by Antony Dilleen

03 January 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Antony Dilleen Modern society is increasingly entwined with digitisation as we adapt the ways we carry out activities; made more efficient and effective with the benefit of technology and its devices. In the field of communication, undoubtedly the largest is social media. As we are all aware by now, this ...

Write On! Features: The Write On! Team Share Their 2024 Wins & Losses

20 December 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss Every year, I invite the Write On! regulars to share their creative wins and losses over 2024. It always amazes me how we are suddenly in December and I often panic – did I do enough this year? Have I achieved what I wanted? Do I need ...

Write On! Features: Using Archives To Tell Stories by Rachel Webb

06 December 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Rachel Webb My mother and grandmother were both only children, and so was I for the first five or six years of my life until my baby sister came along. My mother’s grandmother, though, was one of five sisters, providing me with a whole community (several generations of 'aunties' and ...

Write On! Features: So You Want To Be A Writer? by Nicola Garrard

15 November 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Nicola Garrard FIVE early steps to make your writing dreams come true! Publishing is tough. Being lucky enough to have your book published feels like a strike of lightning. If you tell your family you want to be an author, they’ll most likely pat your head and say, "Remember when you ...

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