If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.
lettersandlight : > Camp NaNoWriMo 2014 has officially launched > ! Whether you’re writing a new novel, > tackling a screenplay, or finishing an existing piece of work,...
Advice: Characters but No Setting, Plot, or Antagonist : writing-questions-answered : >> artist-versus-poet asked: >> What do you do when you have characters but no setting...
Mhairi Stewart on science and creative writing in schools, via Scottish Book Trust
Enter the West Sussex Writers National Short Story Competition : Maximum word count: 3000 Unthemed Closing Date: 31st March 2014 Fee: £5 per entry Prizes: 1st prize £200; 2nd prize £...
Young writer? Enter the Dylan Thomas writing competition : Have your work read and broadcast by Dylan Thomas fans such as Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens and be in with a chance to have your writing pu...
“It’s like a fingerprint of singing voice. There’s something that belongs to you that just gets into your writing.” Lorrie Moore
SEVEN QUOTES ON WRITING FROM JULIA CAMERON We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because hu...
Khaled Hosseini's writing tips : NINE QUOTES Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequen...
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories,” Ursula K Le Guin
Check out a new online writing/creative community, HoneLife.com : Free-to-register online community where writers, photographers and artists can post responses to a monthly stimulus.
Are you a teacher? Want to find some time and space to write yourself? : Do you teach writing in the classroom but never get the time for your own creative writing? This week, exclusively for...
Chalk the Sun TV, radio and screenplay writing workshops : A series of monthly flexible-attendance workshops focusing on techniques and development of radio drama, stage, sit-com, TV and screen...
Write a novel in a year - workshops at the Royal Festival Hall : Tue 25 Feb 2014 to Tue 16 Dec 2014 Participants can attend the entire series or pick and choose the classes most relevant to t...
Pageturners Children's And Young People's Book Festival, 7-15 March 2014 : Join us for the children’s and young people’s book festival for Calderdale & Kirklees, March 7-15 2014, packed ful...
Want to write for TV? Meet some of the North's most important script producers : Calling all budding writers looking to work in TV comedy and drama. CIT offers a unique opportunity to meet some...
Crime writer? Enter the Criminal Lines competition : AM Heath in association with The Writers’ Workshop are delighted to announce Criminal Lines 2014, a new crime writing prize open to unagen...
Young writer? Enter The Young Enigma Awards - a nationwide search to find the LGBT+ voices of tomorrow
The CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition for published and unpublished writers : There are two key requirements – the first is that this must be an UNPUBLISHED short story; the secon...
Women! Enter the Mslexia short story competition 2014 : A competition for unpublished short stories of up to 2,200 words. We accept work on all subjects, so write about anything and everything ...