Seven Deadly Fears of Writing

What’s been stopping you from producing that magnum opus? Taken from the opening of Jurgen Wolff’s 2007 Your Writing Coach, … More

Artwork for blog posts

As I have to keep telling clients, the bad old days of text-only blogs is over. Every post needs at … More

A couple of years ago, I calculated that I’d racked up about four and a half thousand blog posts across … More

Sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words or more. That’s your typical novel. Somehow you have to get to there from … More

Back to where we started. Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because … More

Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because the original was, well, terrible. … More

Let’s start with the basics: ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s an international system of identifying books by … More

There are many ways to start writing a book, both fiction and non-fiction. Without a first draft, you don’t have … More

The BBC used to have an educational site called Get Writing, no longer live but some of the content migrated … More

TV and movie screen-writer Jeremy Brock (co-creator of BBC’s Casualty, writer of Last King of Scotland, Mrs Brown and Brideshead … More