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Pantsing vs Plotting: Which is ‘The Way’?
The official battle line of the writing community: pantsers vs plotters. Which is 'The Way'?
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Writing Voices
Nov 11, 20214 min read
Four essential rituals for writers
We put our brains together and assembled four fundamental rituals for writers and some tips on how you can tailor them to suit you.
Writing Voices
Nov 4, 20215 min read
If you could recommend one book that helped make you a better writer, what would it be and why?
This week, we've been racking our brains to choose just one book that helped make each of us a better writer.
Guest Writer
Oct 29, 20216 min read
Schrödinger's Cat
New guest author Courtney Wakelin puts us in the painter's studio, where it's clear from the start that something unsettling is happening...
Writing Voices
Oct 28, 20214 min read
What fictional pet would you like to adopt and why?
Has your brain gone straight to dragons and griffins? Well, you might be surprised by what the Scribble chose to bring home from the pound.
Writing Voices
Oct 21, 20213 min read
If you wrote a self-help book for writers, what would you call it and why?
We may have had a tad too much fun on this one. This week the scribble were tasked to come up with the ultimate self-help book for writers.
Writing Voices
Oct 14, 20215 min read
Are there any writing exercises you do to warm up or improve your craft?
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!
Writing Voices
Oct 7, 20216 min read
If you could read any book again for the first time, which would it be and why?
Have you ever felt sheer envy when someone you know announces they have never read your favourite book? We know that feeling all too well...
Writing Voices
Oct 1, 20215 min read
What is the key to creating compelling characters?
You know an author has cracked it when you finish a book and miss the characters. So what's the key to creating compelling characters?
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...
Guest Writer
Jul 28, 20212 min read
Somewhere-on-Sea
'Somewhere-on-Sea' by Yorkshire poet Benjamin Husbands conjures up the ennui of lockdown spent on the North Yorkshire coast in post-Brexit..
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