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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! Interviews: Author Rebecca Seaton

07 January 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author Rebecca Seaton Rebecca says, "I was born in Bracknell, Berkshire but have lived in Dagenham for the last 25 years. I teach locally and currently work with children with social, emotional and mental health needs. Reading has always been one of my favourite things to do and ...

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! Interviews: Writing Advice From Writers

31 December 2023 News, WriteOn Interviews

As we near the very end of 2023, it’s the perfect time to look back at all the insightful advice we’ve had this past year from the 50 authors we’ve interviewed. "I think you have to be a little selfish to be a writer and it’s important to not feel guilty ...

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! Issue 19 OUT TODAY

12 December 2023 News

Write On! 19 is out today: Themed Reality And Perspectives this issue is jam-packed with writers and creatives who face a blank page everyday and yet are still able to curate a perspective of continual hope. Award-winning actor and author Paterson Joseph discusses the power of connecting history to modern ...

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: 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 ...

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