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Write On! Features: The Journey To My Books by Hema Macherla

19 January 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Hema Macherla I walked into Waterstones in 2008 and what immediately caught my eye was my book, Breeze From The River Manjeera, on the ‘We Recommend’ display shelf. I was so thrilled. At an early age, I'd watch my mother burning the midnight oil while she wrote her book. I mean it literally. Atmakur, the ...

Write On! Features: The Big Debate – The Enigma Of Success by Claire Buss

12 January 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Claire Buss Originally published in Write On! magazine, Issue Three This is how the conversation goes: "So, what do you do, Claire?" "Oh, I'm a writer." "Really? Anything I'd have seen?" "Well… all my books are on Amazon so…" "Who's your publisher?" "Actually, I'm self-published." "Oh, right. So when are you going back to work?" Because of course, having ...

Write On! Features: Embracing The Power Of The New Year To Finally Accomplish That Dream Goal by Lynne Golodner

05 January 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Lynne Golodner At the start of a new year, many of us resolve to do things better, or differently than before. But that means we begin with a deficit, doesn’t it? Because, to be better, we have to know what was 'less than' in the previous year. What if, this ...

Write On! Features: Reflections On Our Creative Year by the Write On! Team

29 December 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss The simple act of looking back, taking time to reflect, can be so motivating in moving forwards. It’s all too easy to think I didn’t do everything therefore I failed but life just doesn’t work that way. What’s important, especially for a creative person, is to honour ...

Write On! Features: On The Perils Of Writing The Future by Gareth Southwell

22 December 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Gareth Southwell Contemporary fiction writers struggle with a present that is always shifting under them. Diligent historical novelists wade through libraries of research to avoid committing some glaring anachronism or embarrassing inaccuracy. And so you might think that writers of science fiction and fantasy have it comparatively easy. The future ...

Write On! Features: Writing An Audio Play by Stephanie Weston

15 December 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Stephanie Weston Do you know the problem with writing a comedy murder mystery? Mobile phones. I don’t mean that you keep checking yours when you’re supposed to be writing – although this could be the case – but that your characters need to be isolated from the rest of the ...

Write On! Features: Finding Your Voice by Chris Penhall

08 December 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Chris Penhall Finding Your Voice – And How I Found Mine Finding our writing voice is something we strive to do when we first pick up our pens, or open our computers. For some it comes easily, for others it takes a while. It evolves and changes as we become more ...

Write On! Features: Foxes In Literature by Faye Anderson

01 December 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Faye Anderson, introduced by Madeleine F White Madeleine says: "As a writer the idea of shapeshifting has always appealed to me. And I’m not the only one. From as early as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the idea of one being changing into another to adapt, to flee, to conquer has been a ...

Write On! Features: Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship

24 November 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Bloomsbury have announced the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship in partnership with Writers & Artists (W&A). The Fellowship, the first of its kind in the UK academic community, plans to uncover talent and new authors who have started their work but have not yet turned it into a proposal which is ...

Write On! Features: Surviving Winter Creatively by the Write On! Team

17 November 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss At a recent online meeting, the Write On! team were discussing how heavy the winter days can feel and the ways in which this time of year weighs down our creativity. As writers, poets, artists and creators we all have different methods to look after ourselves and ...

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