How to Guides.
Pen to Print is here to share our learning, as part of this here are a some ‘How to Guides’ passing on useful tips we have learned on our journey that may help with your writing, taking part in competitions, getting the most from online classes & workshops and developing your career by making the most of your potential.
How to Access an Event / Class Booked on Eventbrite
A few simple steps to access your online session from your Eventbrite booking.
How to Get Tutor Feedback on Assignments
Want to know how you did? Get the feedback on your work.
How to Submit an Assignment in Google Classroom
If you are in a Google Classroom how can you submit your Assignments? Here is how.
How to Join Google Classroom
So you can enjoy our new online classes and workshops here is how you can set yourself up on Google Classroom.
How to Set Up a Google Account
So you can join in our online classes using Google Classrooms you will need a Google Account here is where you can find out how.
How to Enter a Competition
Hints and Tips for making sure your entry doesn't fail at the first hurdle
How to Apply for an Apprenticeship
Our existing Apprentices give you some tips on how they approached applying for their apprenticeship.
If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
One should begin any work of fiction with the longest, most convoluted sentence imaginable, then try to beat that record.
Charles Dickens
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the readers.
Stephen King
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
Octavia E.Butler
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
Agatha Christie
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L’Amour
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
James Thurber
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
To write successfully, one requires only a sharp pencil, a piece of paper and a hot cup of tea.
Agatha Christie
Poetry is when an emotion has found it’s thought, and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
Writing lets you break boundaries because you can go anywhere you wish.
The voice in my stories is sometimes authentic, sometimes it is foreign.
Sometimes it is old. Sometimes it is new. Sometimes my writing is Muslim, other times it is Sikh and many times, it is no one’s religion because as long as I am telling the story,
I am in control.
I am whoever I want to be.