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Write On! Features: How To Prepare For A Talk by Jilly Henderson-Long

08 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Jilly Henderson-Long I've been lucky enough to do a number of talks at schools and writing groups. As a writer, I find this an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, yet only last year, prior to delivering two talks to two separate Year Four classes at a local school, I still found ...

Monday Moments: Spring Beginnings

04 March 2024 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall This month, our theme continues to be ‘Beginnings And Endings’ and I wanted to focus on seasonal changes, since springtime is right around the corner. Personally, I never really feel as though the year has started until now, when the days get a little longer and brighter, ...

Write On! Features: How To Begin Writing by Millie Murray

01 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Millie Murray Everyone writes, or has written at some point in their lives. The most obvious place where writing experiences have occurred, is during one’s school years. This is regardless of one’s writing ability. I’m generalising, of course, but when people state, “I would like to be a writer,” they ...

Writer Of The Month: Jilly Henderson-Long

26 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Gareth Southwell February’s Writer Of The Month feature focuses on Jilly Henderson-Long. Now based in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Jilly’s passion for writing began in early childhood and has continued unabated ever since. She's not only a published poet and children’s book author, but has always been keen to share ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases February 2024

24 February 2024 News

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On! At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, playwrights and audiences, so we've created a Spotlight page on the last Saturday of the month, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list ...

Write On! Features: From Fact to Fiction – The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction by Mark Butterworth

23 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mark Butterworth One of the most appealing and enduring literary genres is historical fiction. Readers enjoy the drama of stories that are set in a recognisable context, time and place, with dramatic characters who play out the events. But it is a truth, (almost) universally accepted, that there is a ...

Write On! Features: Writing Romance In Today’s World by Sue Moorcroft

16 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Sue Moorcroft (c) Silvia Rosado Photography When Madeleine White, the Editor of Write On! asked me whether a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association (www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org) might like to write a feature to connect to Valentine’s Day, I said I’d reach out. After all, we’ve partnered on several things and it ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Romantic Beginnings

13 February 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen The theme of beginnings and endings carries on in our pages for the start of 2024 and, with St Valentine’s Day approaching, I thought I’d have a look at some beginnings which tie in with February’s romantic theme. If, like me, you watched the rom-com The Holiday this Christmas, ...

Write On! Features: Episodic Writing by Emily Inkpen

09 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Emily Inkpen Episodic writing has changed dramatically since the late noughties. The reason for this is simple: writers can now, more or less, guarantee that viewers and listeners will consume their show from start to finish and in order, at their own pace, without missing anything. With streaming services and the ...

Monday Moments: Writing As Literary Time Travel

05 February 2024 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall This month, our theme continues to be ‘Beginnings And Endings’. I’ve been thinking about how we, as writers, have the power to play around with structure and turn the idea of beginning, middle and end on its head. Writing gives us a lot of freedom and it’s easy ...

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