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Writing Voices
Sep 23, 20216 min read
What are your golden rules of writing?
It's important to have laws to live by in all aspects of your life! This week, we're spilling the ink on our golden rules of writing...


Writing Voices
Sep 16, 20214 min read
Have you got any tips for writing poetry?
Poetry is subjective, and a little untameable. Nevertheless, we asked the scribble for any tips they might have for you.


Writing Voices
Sep 9, 20214 min read
What is your biggest insecurity as a writer?
Writers tend to share a lot of the same worries and fears, so we decided to show some solidarity with our readers and share some of ours.


Writing Voices
Sep 2, 20216 min read
Pick four images that inspire creativity and explain why you chose them.
We asked the scribble to pick out four images which appealed and explain how they might use those images to inspire their creative process.


Writing Voices
Aug 26, 20219 min read
What are the best and worst literary adaptations to television or film?
One thing guaranteed to send a bookworm into either spasms of delight or furious apoplexy is a literary adaptation done well, or done badly.


Writing Voices
Aug 19, 20216 min read
What's your dream literary dinner party? Attendees, foods and location.
You are the literary dinner party host extraordinaire... You can invite anyone you like from literature, living or dead, fictional or real.


Writing Voices
Aug 12, 20214 min read
Would you rather be a critically-acclaimed one hit wonder or well published yet relatively unknown?
We're all guilty of mentally jumping the gun a bit and imaging what life will be like when we can finally quit our day jobs - when the...


Writing Voices
Aug 5, 20217 min read
How do you get the most from critical feedback and editorial notes?
You've written something and now you need a second opinion. Receiving critical feedback can be difficult and knowing how to accept and...


Writing Voices
Jul 29, 20216 min read
What non-writing activities help your writing?
As writers, we tend to spend a lot of time focused on the job in hand or building and exploring internal, alternative worlds. Work life...


Writing Voices
Jul 22, 20218 min read
What literary character would you most like to tell off, and why?
If you’ve ever caught yourself screeching at a book, perhaps holding it at arms length and reading with one eye in utter frustration...


Writing Voices
Jul 15, 20215 min read
How do you get started with a new story?
If you're going to be a writer then there's one thing you can't avoid - getting started! And sometimes that can be the trickiest part.


Writing Voices
Jul 8, 20217 min read
Which books do you revisit & why?
Great writers are great readers. Chances are, if you're a writer, it's because at some point along the road, you fell in love with a book.


Writing Voices
Jul 1, 20215 min read
Have you ever been on a writing retreat? What did you get out of it?
what better for a writer than a writing retreat? We asked the scribble if they'd ever been on a retreat and what they got out of it.


Writing Voices
Jun 24, 20217 min read
You're restricted to a genre, form and medium for life. What do you go for?
You wake up one morning and there is an email waiting for you, telling you that today you must choose one genre, form and medium for life...


Writing Voices
Jun 10, 20215 min read
Are you in favour of self-publishing?
Many writers dream of being picked up by a publisher; most of those writers will not get picked up. Is self-publishing a viable alternative?


Writing Voices
Jun 3, 20216 min read
Should you be writing for yourself or for your readers?
How much should you be thinking about the reader, or end user, during the development of a piece of writing?


Writing Voices
May 27, 20214 min read
Do you stick to one project at a time or do you have several on the go?
We're delving into more controversy this week with a question that has had writers gesticulating at each other furiously for years.


Writing Voices
May 20, 20216 min read
Do you believe in writer’s block and how do you tackle it?
This week, the Write Yorkshire scribble talk to us about their views on writer’s block and offer some practical advice on how to tackle it.


Writing Voices
May 13, 20218 min read
On mental health and being a writer
This week, we're having a heart-to-heart with the Write Yorkshire scribble about mental health.


Writing Voices
May 6, 20214 min read
Do you find it difficult to accept critical feedback or editorial changes?
Occasionally, we ask a question and get a unanimous answer... The Write Yorkshire scribble have some good advice this week on bracing...
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