Inside the August 2019 issue of Writing Magazine:

Writers online

• How to make more out of Twitter

• Writing, and creating, your own blog

• How to approach book bloggers to generate publicity 

Writing technique

How do you write a sentence? It’s not as straightforward as you think!

Writing ideas

Using real people in your fiction

Writing for children

Lucy V Hay explains how she writers pacy, modern, YA fiction

Writing business

What’s your writing worth? How to work out how much you should be charging

Interviews and profiles

• Novelist Ayisha Malik on following up the reading group smash Sofia Khan is Not Obliged 

• Meet hotly tipped debut author Luan Goldie

• Sarah Jane Douglas explains how she gave up her job to become a gardener, to free up time to write

• Simon Brett highlights his five favourite reads

• Explore the life and work of Rose Tremain 

Plus lots more competitions and publishing opportunities for you to get involved with.