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Friday Features: On Growth, The Journey, And Ragnarok

16 April 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Genevieve Gornichec One thing I always say to fellow writers who want to pursue traditional publishing is that, whether you’re drafting, editing, querying, or out on submission, everything will happen in your own time. In my case, I chose to sit on my debut novel for seven years before trying ...

Friday Features: This Much Children Know

09 April 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Gail Aldwin As readers of fiction with child narrators, we are able to reinhabit the world of our younger selves. The world of a child is much smaller than the world adults experience, and this focus on the workings of everyday life can be very grounding. In my second novel, ...

Friday Features: Viking Helmets At The Ready – How To NaNoWriMo

02 April 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Matt Wixey I've written three novels. The first, which started when I was 13, is unfinished. It's called Necropolis, which probably tells you all you need to know. It's a weird, angsty, stream-of-consciousness dystopian thriller (some might call it a 'mess'), with a plot that doesn't go anywhere, characters who speak ...

Friday Features: In Search Of A Genre

26 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By R J Gould I’d written my first novel! It took over four years to complete but, since I was working 'full-time' I didn’t agonise about this. Next, I did all the right things: gathering a list of suitable agents to approach, researching how to construct the perfect introductory letter and ...

Writer Of The Month: Farzana Hakim

22 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

Presented by Eithne Cullen I’m delighted to be introducing our Writer Of The Month, Farzana Hakim, who has been a writer friend for a long time. We met through Pen to Print and The Book Challenge and she’s had great success in that competition with her two novels. Today, she’s sharing ...

Friday Features: What Makes A Great Freelance Writer?

19 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Alison Grade The obvious answer to this question is being a great writer. And yes, absolutely to be a great freelance writer you do need to be a great writer. Importantly, though, you also need to be great at being a freelancer and that’s the bit that's often overlooked or ...

Friday Features: The Typewriter Revelations: Overcoming Procrastination (come up with better title tomorrow) by Matt Wixey

12 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Matt Wixey I'm a procrastinator. It's a miracle you're reading this at all, really. Some people are born procrastinators, some achieve procrastination, others have it thrust upon them. I don't think I was born a putter-offer; I actually arrived punctually, the only time that's happened in the intervening 33 years. But ...

Friday Features: Making Writing A Business – Assessing The Possibilities by Patrick Forsyth

05 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

Patrick Forsyth explores how a writer can create and deal with money-making opportunities. Make no mistake: I am pleased to be writing this, I shall enjoy writing it, I am proud of my involvement with this magazine and I shall take some pleasure in seeing it published. I also like to ...

Friday Features: Writing Audio Drama: A Brief Introduction by Chris Gregory

26 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

The job of the audio dramatist is to tell a convincing and compelling story through sound alone. Chris Gregory from the Alternative Stories And Fake Realities Podcast takes us through some of the basics of writing for audio drama. This article will be a very brief run-through of some of the ...

Writer Of The Month: Eithne Cullen

22 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Julie Dexter This month Eithne offers us a collection of poems and two extracts from her novels. The first two poems each have a theme of ageing, though, they are vastly different in context. Metaphors and allusions within the first poem are tightly woven into the rhyme scheme featuring couplets ...

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