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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 ...

Friday Features: Consumer Vs Creator by Madeleine F. White

19 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Madeleine F White I’ve spent most of the last 12 months not writing. There, I’ve said it. As Editor of Write On! and storyteller consultant for other clients I have, of course, written: things like press releases, emails and translations. But, other than some poetry and an audio drama script, I ...

Friday Features: A Love Story By Farzana Hakim

12 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Farzana Hakim There’s always been this romantic vibe about me; even before my writer days. Ha ha… doesn’t it sound weird? But I reckon it’s because of the day on which I was born: 14th February. Without going into too much detail, my parents no doubt romanticised my arrival. I ...

Friday Features: Global Dreams – Publishing Internationally by Anika Scott

05 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

When my phone buzzed, I was enjoying a chocolate sundae and cappuccino at the Italian ice cream café near the German town where I live. It was a couple of weeks after my debut novel The German Heiress had been picked up by publishers in the UK and US. That ...

Friday Features: Judge A Book By Its Cover by Carol Van Den Hende

29 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

How Authors Can Inspire Great Design By Carol Van Den Hende, MBA Why design? When we consider storytelling, we usually think of the written or spoken words that make up the tale. However, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of book covers to evoke emotion and spark interest in a story. After all, humans ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

25 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

Friday Features: It Happened In Essex by Colin Payne

22 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Colin Payne It’s not often that two branches of the arts get to work together on a fund-raising drive for NHS volunteers but, recently, Basildon Writers’ Group released a book to help raise much-needed funds for Basildon Hospital Radio, BHR 87.7 FM. The volunteers at the radio station had to leave ...

Friday Features: Seeking Truth In Fiction by Julie Carrick Dalton

15 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Julie Carrick Dalton Truth hides in fissures and hollows, in broken places and empty parts. It can be buried, crushed, or burnt, but the truth will always rise. This the opening to my debut novel, Waiting For The Night Song. It also sums up the journey I embarked on when I ...

Friday Features: My Experiment In Writing By Lucy Kaufman

08 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Lucy Kaufman Towards the end of last year, I embarked on an experiment in writing. I aimed to write a whole new novel in a year, as well as write it in a completely new and better way. I committed to this experiment wholeheartedly, even writing and signing a contract ...

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