Writers\' Forum - 04.2020

DEADLINE DAY H e frustrating thing about writing for magazines is that everything happens at the last minute. This month I got a ...

Y ou can never have too much Elvis!’ Three editors on separate magazines have emailed that sentence to me in the last couple of ...

that he’s not proud of me. He just has very, um, narrow ideas about music.’ Flashback Having ended the fi rst scene with a myste ...

T he beginning of any manuscript needs to act like a magnet, making readers – including VIPs like publishers and editors – go on ...

Writers’FORUM EXERCISE FORUM EXERCISE FORUM EXERCISE be suffi cient. It will be enough to put the reader in the picture; too muc ...

10 – 12 July,2020 University of Winchester, UK Workshops, talks, and one-to-one appointments with top literary agents For emergi ...

I don’t need to tell you that the one question writers are asked repeatedly is: Where do you get your ideas? It’s not just an is ...

SHORT SHORT WRITING Writers ’ FORUM FLASH COMP RESULTS The task was to tell rather than show a story set during a romantic date ...

then took the rest of the ice cream with a smile. The waiter asked about cofee. John asked about her family. Catherine told him ...

Available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google play “...give or take a pebble.”, “...give or take a shilling.”, and ...

P eople of all kinds should be represented in literature, both as characters and authors, regardless of gender, colour, race, se ...

Roll a dice to fi nd all the ingredients for your next story or use each of the squares as a daily prompt this month FICTIONSQ ...

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April Writers FORUM GET STARTED Spend fi ve minutes starting Douglas’s homework on page 11, jotting down ideas for articles from ...

April’s Daily Kickstarters Spend fi ve minutes starting Douglas’s page 11, jotting down ideas for articles from a newspaper. A L ...

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37 STORY COMP Writers’FORUM #222 Writers FORUM iction competition FIRST PRIZE £300 Tritos of Penthene Asks his Question of the G ...

STORY COMP childhood – did my father love me, his eldest son, as he should? For I was an ill-favoured child, squint-eyed and wit ...

STORY COMP from behind the Pillar of Amunoun, and nods, to the left. No. Is Xenophilen truly my son? I stagger away from the pro ...

STORY COMP No, don’t use the laptop just yet. Step away from the keyboard. We’ll do this my way. You need to slow your brain dow ...