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Friday Feature: With A Little Help From Our Friends

Authors Katharine Johnson (Katy), G D Harper (Glyn) and Helen Matthews talk to Write On! about ways authors can find more readers by supporting each other, and how they came together to form the 'Noir Collective'. (Authors pictured in featured image) Imagine it’s publication day. Perhaps for your debut novel. You want ...

Writer Of The Month: Patsy Middleton

By Juneha Chowdhury Our writer of the month is novelist and poet Patsy Middleton. Patsy was a finalist in the Pen to Print Book Challenge 2015 and 2016 with her debut novel, Colonel Erdington’s Daughter. Apart from writing historical fiction, Patsy also writes sketches, adaptions of plays, and lots of thought-provoking poetry. ...

Friday Feature: The Guilty Writer

By Claire Buss Hello, my name is Claire and I’m a guilty writer. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing and I still can’t get over the fact that other people enjoy reading my books. But the process of writing itself is not always a smooth path. Let me explain. Getting Up ...

Friday Feature: Five Top Tips To Staying Hopeful

By Juneha Chowdhury Hope, like love, is a four-letter word with immense healing power. Like love, it has the ability to fill a void, to lift a spirit but, most importantly, it allows us to alter our perception of the world; giving our lives an uplift, too. When we're overwhelmed by ...

Friday Feature: Write Right

Write Right: Brave New Words In Brentwood by Patrick Forsyth (Chair of Brentwood Writers’ Circle) Sadly, with Covid difficulties continuing, so many of our favourite activities are currently impossible. One that can very much continue, of course, is writing. Writing takes many forms: long or short, fiction or non-fiction, and from ...

Friday Feature: NaNoWriMo

By Claire Buss The end of October swiftly approaches and for many writers that means NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. The aim of the game is to write 1667 words every day for the month of November. And we're talking rough draft here so no time for editing. You can ...

Friday Feature: Lockdown – A Curse Or A Blessing?

By Patrick Forsyth Patrick draws writing lessons, and success, from recent months: I know quoting Chinese proverbs is something of a cliché, but how about this as something to ponder currently: the Chinese write the word ‘Crisis’ with two characters. Singly the first means ‘chaos’ and the second means ‘opportunity’. Hmm. I like ...

Friday Feature: Men Writing Romance

By Jean Fullerton Men Writing Romance. Can they? Should they? There’s a commonly-held belief that, in general, men aren’t as romantic as women. However, I would suggest that many of the lyrics written by the likes of Ed Sheeran would belie that argument.  I think men are just as romantic as women, ...

Friday Feature: The Organised Writer

by Antony Johnston For the past 20 years, I’ve been able to make a living as a full-time writer. Nobody is more surprised by this than me, but what I find even more surprising is how I’ve done it, and the myriad twists and turns my career has taken in that ...