A Prompt From: Carole Johnston
A screenwriter friend of mine once gave me an invaluable writing tip that I find myself using for every story I write, be it short-form or long. If you...
A Prompt From: Claire Fuller
When I put one of my characters in a place that they know, I always try to be aware of how they have informed it and how it informs...
A Prompt From: Maggie O'Farrell
Beginnings are hard. The blizzard-white emptiness of the page in front of you, the empty document with the patiently waiting cursor: they can conspire to give you such awful vertigo...
meet Hazel
Best book you’ve read… don’t overthink it A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel. What’s a book you pretend to have read but have never finished? The Iliad (and the...
National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo. An acronym to either strike fear or send a surge of excitement through the heart of any creative writer. NaNoWriMo, or to give its full title ‘National Novel Writing...
Does Size Really Matter?
Rare Birds Books sets out to prove, once and for all, that it’s not the length of a book that counts… it’s what the author does with it.
Worth the wait?
Good things come to those who wait… We take a look at some of the most prolific Rare Birds of all time, and those who enjoy a more relaxed approach...
