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Never Give Up

Never Give Up

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AdviceGill ThompsonMarch 12, 2019Comment

Give no Offence

Give no Offence

Avoid inappropriate humour

AdviceGill ThompsonMarch 5, 2019Comment

The Whine of Worry

The Whine of Worry

How to grip your reader.

AdviceGill ThompsonFebruary 26, 2019Comment

Whose book is it Anyway?

Whose book is it Anyway?

Who owns our characters?

CharactersGill ThompsonFebruary 19, 2019Comment

What Price Friendships?

What Price Friendships?

Can you base your stories on the experiences of people you know?

CharactersGill ThompsonFebruary 12, 2019 Comments

The Birth Pains of Publishing

The Birth Pains of Publishing

AdviceGill ThompsonFebruary 5, 2019Jane AustinComment

January Weather

January Weather

A lesson from Dickens

StyleGill ThompsonJanuary 29, 2019Comment

Conveying Trauma in Texts

Conveying Trauma in Texts

Tips from a playwright on how to show mental distress

CharactersGill ThompsonJanuary 22, 2019Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire’, Plastic TheatreComment

Are your endings two-faced?

Are your endings two-faced?

A Roman god shows us how to write an epic conclusion

Gill ThompsonJanuary 15, 2019Comment

Ringing in the New Year

Ringing in the New Year

Tennyson show us how

StyleGill ThompsonJanuary 8, 2019Comment

Writing Christmas

Writing Christmas

Dickens gives us a masterclas

StyleGill ThompsonDecember 18, 2018Comment

Conveying Time Lapses

Conveying Time Lapses

How do writers signal to readers that time has gone by?

StyleGill ThompsonDecember 10, 2018Comment