Our letter boxes gets filled up every day with all manner of junk mail and freebie newspapers. By all means, bin the junk, but don’t throw out the newspapers! Local [Read More]
Today’s 300 word challenge involves you using your eyes. Wherever you are, look around and find two people – male and female, male and male, female and female… cat and [Read More]
For today’s writing challenge I wanted to come up with a novel way of using everyday objects around you. Wherever you are… get out your notepad and pen (seriously! you [Read More]
Have you ever watched a film or read a book that left a lasting impact on your life? As a writer, it’s your job to bring characters and situations to [Read More]
There is nothing worse than beginning a story only to realise that you have forgotten where it is going. Make use of easily learnable techniques to keep all your ideas [Read More]
Currently I am writing content for six blogs and writing marketing copy for a number of small businesses. As you can imagine, this takes up a lot of my working [Read More]
For many aspiring authors, making time to write can be difficult. When I first began to write, my family and friends thought that I was just going through another ‘phase’. [Read More]
Here is a 300 word challenge to help get your brain working! Using a notepad, typewriter or whatever device you use to write, I want you to write the first [Read More]
I first discovered the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels around 1992. My Dad would spend hours sitting in his favourite chair chuckling away to himself. There seemed to be [Read More]
Someone once said that everyone has at least one book in them… This may be true, but getting that book out of your head and onto ‘paper’ can be a [Read More]
I was awoken very early this morning by the rumbling of thunder from a nearby storm. I lay in bed watching my ceiling light up bright white as each lightning [Read More]