Well, we could try. But sometimes a lack of energy, time, and all that other stuff you need makes it…
EKPHRASTIC CHALLENGE
We’ll be choosing an ekphrastic story to read on radio, so when you’ve finished yours, please email to fromewriterscollective@gmail.com, with…
EKPHRASTIC WRITING
BACKGROUND Ekphrastic has come to mean any writing – prose or poetry – in any form – which uses art…
Bare Bones Part 2
So in the first part I talked about how to strip a story back to its basic plot, taking out…
Bare Bones Part 1
In the March programme of Writers on Radio we focused on autobiography and family stories and I shared this method…
Dissenters by Liz Hutchinson – A Ridiculous Time to Publish a Book
What a ridiculous time to publish a book, you might think: businesses furloughed, bookshops closed for months, libraries mothballed, deliveries…
Writing Short Stories
Short story writing? Give it a go! Being able to tell a story in a short amount of time arguably…
Persuasive Speech
Greta Thunberg – what an amazing environmental activist she is! A small person with two pigtails and the power…
Managing a Bookshop – The Inside Story
Some of us in Frome Writers’ Collective wanted to know what managing our popular Frome bookshop was like, so we…
Controversial Characters
Whatever the book is, characters are like Marmite. You either love them or you hate them.