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Write On! Features: Writing Alternate Worlds, Imagining Change by Gita Ralleigh

13 October 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Gita Ralleigh When I teach worldbuilding to my creative writing students, I encourage them to begin freely. Soon, though, we start to formulate – not rules, exactly – but the components of their world. What historical events have shaped the present? Who performs the domestic work? Who has power? Magic, ...

Write On! Features: How To ‘Write About What You Know’ by Jilly Henderson-Long

06 October 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long Ask any writer and they will tell you that, at some point in their career, they've been advised the best way to make their writing sound realistic, is ‘write about what you know’. There's no doubt this adds credence to any writing. We’re all aware of how it ...

Write On! Features: Why I Left X And Joined Substack by James Marshall

29 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By James Marshall How to build an audience or “Why I left X and joined Substack.” I started creative writing five years ago and am aiming to get my first novel published next year. I had my first, frustrating, unsuccessful encounter with publishing a previous novel last year. I'm no expert in ...

Writer Of The Month: Frasier Armitage

25 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Maggie Harris Meet Frasier Armitage, Pen to Print’s Writer Of The Month for September and a self-confessed Sci-Fi fanatic. I confess I don’t read much of that particular genre, but enjoy watching movies and there are elements of fantasy across all genres. And, of course, good writing is good ...

Write On! Features: From Bow To The Bookie – A Personal Journey In Books And Writing by Suzy Lines

22 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Suzy Lines As a young girl, I was the one that was quiet, well spoken, who didn’t quite fit in. Having moved from the South to Bow, East London in 1981 at the age of five, I didn’t speak like the other kids (my Dad policing any H’s and innits ...

Write On! Features: Social Media For Creatives: Friend Or Foe? by Amber Hall

15 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Amber Hall Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 15 Do you remember a time before the Internet? Before our thinking was shaped by social media? In the early days, we had Bebo and then Facebook. We tended to our pages nightly, racking up follower counts through increasingly tenuous connections. I think ...

Write On! Features: Should Children’s Writing Be Sugar-Coating Their World? By Mary Walsh

08 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Mary Walsh Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 11 When writing a book for children with a plot involving sensitive issues such as racism, sexual abuse, cruelty, neglect and death, do you sugar-coat it to make it appear ‘nicer’ or do you portray the world as it is, warts and all? In ...

Write On! Features: Self-Editing vs Hiring A Professional by Dan Cross

01 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Dan Cross Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 11 Writing is our means of translating our boundless imaginations and ideas into forms others can make sense of. But if our words don’t communicate effectively, readers can end up confused and uninterested. Editing, then, is the act of making your writing ...

Write On! Features: Legacy Journaling By Merle R. Saferstein

25 August 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Merle R. Saferstein Shortly after reading The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank, I bought my first diary with a pink faux leather cover and a lock to keep my thoughts safe. I wrote in it periodically throughout my junior high school years and filled a few diaries. ...

Write On! Features: Publish And Be Damned – On Publisher Responsibility by Mollie Hogg

18 August 2023 News, WriteOn Features

(Originally published in Write On! magazine, issue 8 as The Big Debate) By Mollie Hogg Whether aspiring or experienced, we writers want our work to reach as many people as possible. For most of us, an important sign of success is also whether we make our mark on the world. Secretly, we ...

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