How to Turn Memories and Life Experience into Narrative
by Karen McCarthy Woolf This year the Southbank Centre in London is celebrating its 60-year anniversary with a revival of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Wander down...
Mixing reality with fiction
by
Michèle
Roberts
Autobiography and imagination are intimately connected: our fears and desires may pour invisibly into the creation of a character. Nobody but the author need know how it’s done....
Why I write poetry
by
Andrew
Motion
Poetry is at once a very primitive and a very subtle thing – an expression of our fundamental and passionate delight in rhythms, sounds and patterns
How to overcome writer's block
by
Michèle
Roberts
Fields are allowed to lie fallow, to recover their strength and fertility. Writers' minds are the same
Successful storytelling
by
Vera
Waters
When telling a story, it’s a good idea to take on the characters of the people or animals. So if Mr Duck quacks, you quack too
Anna's top writing tips
by
Anna
McKerrow
Sometimes, people are so worried that their writing won’t be good enough that they never actually start. So just aim to get your first thoughts down.
Why I write
by
Nii Ayikwei
Parkes
I started writing because there wasn’t always someone to talk to, and there was always something on my mind
Three golden rules
by
Sherrie
Hewson
Keep your writing succinct, simple and truthful. Readers don’t want fussy details
Write about what you care about
by
Malorie
Blackman
Write about something that thrills you or makes you intensely angry or afraid or happy or sad
Get going with your family history
by
Simon
Fowler
It’s easy enough to start out by checking out your forbears online at home. And it could change your life
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