A Prompt From: Emily Henry
I spent years mistaking a fear of failure for writer’s block. I’d get twenty-thousand words or so into a draft, and have no idea what came next. It got...
A Prompt From: Mhairi McFarlane
Give your characters real problems, and let them make big mistakes. Not a Hollywoodish simulacrum of a problem, which are fixed by being brave, honest and nice enough. Pose...
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...
