writing

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates. Henning Mankell

“While there are basic writing skills that every writer should implement when needed, you will take larger strides by developing your personal writing style. There is no need to convey your thoughts like the next writer. Your readers want to hear you. Make them fall in love with your way of...

https://dystopianstories.com/events/wells-festival-of-literatures-international-creative-writing-competitions/ https://dystopianstories.com/writing-competitions-contests/

DAMN! missed soem good ones, but still possible. Check the MK Fisher one. https://writingdeadlines.substack.com/p/writing-deadlines-16-writing-competitions

"I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out." Randy Newman

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” Louise Brooks

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/the-plaza-prizes-winners-judges-writing-awards#:~:text=A%20competition%20for%20new%20writers,and%20writers%20in%20the%20world%E2%80%9D

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Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it...

I have been thinking about setting up an online writing workshop. The in-person workshop group I have been participating in here has been fun and productive, maybe it can work online, too. The basic idea is that we use a framework with short exercises (I have Steering the Craft by Ursula le...

Most people on here concentrate on novels tho we do work on FF, short stories and poetry esp for competitions. So I thought a thread where people can bring competitions or what they use in writing short stories.

Whilst I’m writing, I’m far away. When I come back, I’m far gone. Pablo Neruda

Writing is like carrying a foetus. Edna O'Brien

I know someone who placed in this so hey it is real. And people do win. https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/index.php?p=prize/intro

The moment a woman starts writing her truth she becomes dangerous. Elif Shafak

Scrivener as never worked properly for me. Though I know it can really be brilliant and I have an old book outlined on it. Google doc breaks down when the file gets to heavy so I have to end it after about 1o k words and there is no brilliant Scrivener button to pull it altogether. Plotter...

'Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head.' Monica Dickens

'Pedestrian writing, thin characters - I can handle the criticism. I write to pedestrians. And I am a pedestrian. I write the best I can. I know I'm never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don't claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart...

Head hopping and don't understand how that affects the reader? Watch this: