How do you get back into a partially finished manuscript after a prolonged break? Picking up those loose threads requires a bit of strategy.

A Bard, a Cleric and a Wizard walk into a publishing house... How Dungeons and Dragons has influenced my writing.

We delve into the world of alternative publishing and self-management, from book covers to selecting retailers with David Bench.

Are you struggling at the moment?

Thinking about taking some sort of creative writing class and worried about other people's opinions? Here's a brief pep talk...

Absolutely. Yes. I don’t think there’s any doubt about this. At least, there isn’t in my mind. Whenever somebody tells me: “Hey, I want...

Described by Chiron as 'the finest love poet of his generation', award winning poet Ian Parks has published eight collections, performed...

Have you ever caught yourself wondering, am I too old to start writing? I’ve always felt like a writer, and I’ve always taken for...

If you’re anything like us, you probably have a stack of stories and piles of poems languishing on your laptop, waiting for the right...

A new year always feels a little bit like a fresh start, doesn’t it? And along with that fresh start, we set resolutions to help guide...

The official battle line of the writing community: pantsers vs plotters. Which is 'The Way'?

We put our brains together and assembled four fundamental rituals for writers and some tips on how you can tailor them to suit you.

Just like athletes, us scribblers have to keep our writing muscles warm and our creative energy flowing, if we are to perform at our peak!

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

We're delving into more controversy this week with a question that has had writers gesticulating at each other furiously for years.