The Benefits of Challenges

The Benefits of Challenges

For writing, and everything else! I signed up for a new challenge recently. I was meant to be doing another Tough Mudder event in September, but this has now been officially cancelled. In the absence of any Tough Mudder events running this year, they’re putting...
How to Write an Effective Critique

How to Write an Effective Critique

Getting useful criticism of your own work is vital to improving your writing but, when the roles are reversed, do you know how to write an effective critique? It’s a useful skill for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s nigh on impossible to write well without...

New Year’s Resolutions for Writers

Who doesn’t love a New Year’s Resolution? There’s something exciting about watching the clock tick over to a new year, feeling like this is a chance to turn over a new leaf, a chance to do better. Making New Year’s Resolutions means, for me at least, sitting down with...

Why You Should be Doing NaNoWriMo

and also, maybe, why you shouldn’t… We’re almost halfway through November—how exactly did that happen?! And if you’re participating in NaNoWriMo you might be wondering why on earth you’re doing this to yourself. If you’re not participating this year, you...

How to Prepare for NaNoWriMo in Five Easy Steps!

November is approaching fast, and while this month means many things to many people, to a certain section of the writing community it means it’s time to sharpen our pencils and charge our laptops for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Over the course of 30...