Category: writing resources

  • Can you learn how to write?

    Can you learn how to write?

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    Kelly Gardiner
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    I don’t know why this debate keeps coming up: people asking whether writers are born or made, and whether there’s any point teaching writing. Actually, I do know why: it’s because some people still believe that real writers are born with an innate gift and don’t need any help refining their genius. Myths we tell…

  • What happens on a writing retreat?

    What happens on a writing retreat?

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    Kelly Gardiner
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    Sounds dreamy, doesn’t it? Escape to somewhere beautiful – a country guesthouse, a cool city hotel, a distant island, a remote Tuscan farmhouse or French chateau – arrange a few books on a windowsill, change into pyjamas, breathe, and write. And it is. Dreamy. It’s also work. There are many different ways to retreat, too.…

  • Our writing community

    Our writing community

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    Kelly Gardiner
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    Aren’t we lucky? On one hand, writing is usually a fairly solitary pursuit. On the other, writers have always found each other, somehow, written (often extraordinary) letters, met for lunch, rented cottages by the sea or city lofts together, read each other’s books or poems: supported, encouraged, and enabled one another’s writing lives. In this…