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Considering a Creative Writing MA or MFA?
If you're seeking a career as a published fiction author, a university or post-graduate school creative writing masters program might not be the right...
Genre is important. Start here, if you will. As I mentioned in our blog 'Get Published', and as we cover in our online creative writing courses, its the first thing an agent assesses on your...
Convert that commute to a crammer session with inspiring content from fine minds in literature and publishing. These podcasts with writers and editors will prove consoling and...
How to edit a novel?
It's a two-stage process.
First, DIY. You grow as an author by being able to edit your own novel through numerous passes, and our Editing courses will...
Would You? Should You? Could You?
It's worth thinking what entering competitions can do for you and your career as an author.
Some points of view from our writers.
From Longlist to Literary Agent:...
In the first blog of the series, we took a look at why you should start your novel writing plan with your title rather than pick and mix as you go or pin a tail on...
In the first blog of the series, we saw the dominant form for the novel title prior to the Twentieth Century was the eponym - or the name of the main character of the story. In the...
In the last blog, we saw the dominant form for the novel title prior to the Twentieth Century was the eponym - or the name of the main character of the story. To an extent, this is reflective...
By Cate Guthleben
I've started many books over the years but, until today, I'd only finished one. That one came from an MA in Creative Writing and took nearly two years to write. After I'd finished...
Welcome to Titology, or the study of titles.
In this short series of blogs on the origins of novel titles, I will perform a rude taxonomy to classify the species. For my roll...
"In my younger and more vulnerable years," (to borrow from the opening line of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald) I would write a novel, many times over many drafts, discarding huge...
SLAYING DRAGONS or how The Novelry saved a writing life.
"Kill the dragon," said Louise Dean, founder of The Novelry.
I was enmeshed in one of my all-too-frequent cycles of...
The second of a two-part special blog on Orwell's own development as a writer to greatness. (Continued from this blog.)
I believe that novels happen in major leaps, via fits of...
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