Win a scholarship for the Six Month Novel
Perhaps the hardest part of writing a novel is reaching the end of a first draft, bringing into solid being something that doesn't actually exist yet, except as shards of ideas in your mind. Doing it alone with no support, accountability or people to tell you to just have faith and keep going is even harder, and that's what the Six Month Novel...
Free 2021 Goal Setting & Planning Workshop for Writers
Set yourself the right goals for 2021, based on what you really want rather than what you think you should want and what's realistic within your life. We'll start with a review of 2020, celebrating the good and identifying things that aren't working, then dream into the future before setting goals that matter to you. Then I'll help you work out...
How to be kind to yourself AND write more
Does anyone even remember their goals and dreams from January at this point? I mean. Mine are in my planner so I have an idea of what they were, but... let's say I'm not entirely on track. You know what though? It doesn't matter. This year has been hard, and what's done is done. It's what we do next that matters. And we still have nearly...
Free online writing retreats to see you through lockdown
We can't go to the writing retreat... so the writing retreat is coming to us. I've seen people posting "Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantined for the plague!", as though we should all be able to sit down and pour out a masterpiece in the next few weeks while in Coronavirus lockdown. And, well, hopefully some people will. But even if...
Win a scholarship place on the Six Month Novel
LOOKING FOR THE 2021 SCHOLARSHIP? CLICK HERE Win a spot on this year's Six Month Novel, and complete your draft by September Writing a novel is hard work, and perhaps the hardest part is getting to the end of a first draft, creating something that feels like it could, one day, be an actual novel in a shop. Doing it alone with no...
What would you write if you weren’t afraid?
I'm just back from the first writing retreat of the year with a really lovely bunch of writers. We had a few chats over the week about the value of time away from normal life to think differently, and for me that brought up the way we think the same things over and over, and how these things we tell ourselves and the emotional...