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Write On! Features: Converting Prose to Script – The Audio Drama Adventure by Emily Inkpen

28 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Emily Inkpen With the Pen-to-Print Audio Drama Award deadline fast approaching (find out more here), I’m providing some pointers on how to write for audio, especially if you’re already a prose writer but don’t know how to make that leap. Audio drama is a brilliant medium for any writer to explore. ...

Write On! Features: Lessons On Cosy Crime – The Mysterious Life Of Agatha Christie And Arthur Conan Doyle

21 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Dr Charlotte Baker The whole point of a good detective story was that it must be somebody obvious but at the same time, for some reason, you would then find that it was not obvious, that he could not possibly have done it. Though really, of course, he had done ...

Write On! Interviews: Author James Thomas

16 February 2025 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author James Thomas James has written short films and a feature length screenplay for independent directors, producers and production companies, as well as working in Los Angeles as a script editor. He’s been writing professionally since a teenager and has written film reviews for several newspapers, Internet magazines ...

Write On! Features: Journey Of A Storyteller by Viv Foster

07 February 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Viv Foster I've always loved adventures. Almost exclusively they have involved mountains and always, until recently, they have been intensely physical and outdoors. I was born in London, destined for the Ford car factory or a mundane job in the big city. I was saved by the locally owned outdoor ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Lucineh Danielian

26 January 2025 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author Lucineh Danielian Lucineh Danielian is an author of Armenian descent and French and British nationality. She grew up in London and works as an educator and examiner. Head of Department, she teaches at an international school in London and specialises in literature and modern languages. Lucineh is ...

Write On! Features: Who Are You Writing For? by Vic Howard

17 January 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Vic Howard My early working life was spent in the world of advertising and at that time vocabulary and column width were important factors considered by newspapers. The most important newspaper then was The Times, which had a column width of about two and a half inches (63mm). The most ...

Write On! Interviews: Poet Sanjana Arunkumar

12 January 2025 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews poet Sanjana Arunkumar Sanjana says: "I’m Sanjana Arunkumar. I’m a nine-year-old just finished Year 4 in Gascoigne Primary School in Barking. My family and friends call me a bookworm. I just can't get enough of reading! I’m also known for my fun-loving and friendly nature." WO: How would you ...

Write On! Features: Social Media – Friend Or Foe by Antony Dilleen

03 January 2025 News, WriteOn Features

By Antony Dilleen Modern society is increasingly entwined with digitisation as we adapt the ways we carry out activities; made more efficient and effective with the benefit of technology and its devices. In the field of communication, undoubtedly the largest is social media. As we are all aware by now, this ...

Write On! Interviews: 2024 Writing Advice From Writers

29 December 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

As we near the very end of 2024, it’s the perfect time to look back at all the insightful advice we’ve had this past year from the 32 authors we’ve interviewed. "Enjoy the process. Have aims, but don’t be so fixed on a particular idea of success that you lose the ...

Write On! Interviews: Jenny Mitchell – Poetry, Passion and Power

22 December 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On!'s Eithne Cullen interviews Jenny Mitchell I first met Jenny when I attended of one of her workshops, having been drawn by Her Lost Language, Map Of A Plantation and Resurrection Of A Black Man, collections that have won multiple awards. She is outspoken; so, unsurprisingly, her workshops challenged. Not ...

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