How To Write
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Writing prompt: Cold
Explore the way the cold makes you or a character feel in this week’s creative…01 December 2023
How to write a Christmas novel
Top tips from four leading authors in the festive fiction field01 December 2023
Coffee-break writing: In nature
Write about the experience of being in nature in this week’s exercise24 November 2023
Coffee-break writing: Pick a book
Write about a favourite book in this week’s creative writing exercise24 November 2023
Writing on the road: Van life
Could you write and travel at the same time? Author Emma Christie does, and she…24 November 2023
Notes on NaNoWriMo: From first draft to publication
Are you doing NaNoWroMo this year? Author C.S.E. Cooney reflects on what…17 November 2023
Coffee-break writing: Half full
Create negative and positive outlooks or interpretations in today's creative…10 November 2023
Fiction: The importance of representation
Novelist Lola Akinmade Åkerström writes about centring Black protagonists in a…10 November 2023
McCredited WM December 2023
Read James McCreet's suggested rewrite for Under the Microscope07 November 2023
