How to Learn Creative Writing

Want to learn how to write creatively? Get a qualification or search the internet ...or, follow these proven ways to improve your creative writing.

Writer Quote of the Day

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades How true is that? Most people can write, even if only their name. Most people can fashion a blog or a letter or a job application, even if they need some help. Those…

Feel Embarrassed About Writing?

Saw this quote and it made me chuckle. Sometimes it does feel that this is a practice that is very self-serving, much like some other things we do in private .. like closet drinking or sneak eating 🙂  

You Can Only Get Better as a Writer

Believe It. If You Can Write, You’re a Writer!

Sometimes people need to embed the belief. Write it out 100 times ... a day.

On Writing

As a teacher of Creative Writing I often wonder how I am contributing to the aspiring writers in my class. Yes, they enjoy the class and gain value from it ... but does it help them? Peter Carey teaches in the US and wondered the same thing. He now teaches a small cohort with the…