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Write On! Features: Celebrating Black History Month by Rachel Affiong Umoh

27 October 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Rachel Affiong Umoh The Same Story Told In Different Languages. I’m Nigerian by descent but living in the UK. As someone who puts great store in the power of words, I always welcome Black History Month as a wonderful reminder of how important our stories are. Passed down from generation to ...

Write On! Features: Making The Shift From The Formal To The Creative by Niema Bohrayba

20 October 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Niema Bohrayba The switch from writing formal industry-related papers and reports to writing creatively has been, and still is, quite a challenge for me. I think it’s to be expected, since I've been writing work-related papers and reports for 20 years, and have only recently begun pursuing my passion for ...

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 ...

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! Issue 18 OUT TODAY

13 September 2023 News

Out Now! Write On! 18 is out today: Themed Literary Passions And Guilty Pleasures this issue features an exclusive interview with Lavie Tidhar, the multi-award winning, multi-genre phenomenon, on Sci-Fi and the power of ideas. The writerly shape-shifter speaks to Palak Tewary about his latest bestseller, ‘Circumference Of The World’ ...

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 ...

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