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Selling Out
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Has social media changed how we write?
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Calling all poets – do you know about SoundCloud?
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Wordcount – an overrated measure of progress?
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From first slam, to slam winner
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Are Asian writers still on the outside looking in?
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Your library needs YOU! How social media is saving libraries
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Twelve Tips for Spoken Word Performers
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How to pitch a freelance article
Has social media changed how we write?
Writing is such an old and fundamental human activity that it is easy to forget how much it has changed over time. Only a few thousand years ago the written word had to be carved on to stone tablets, and could only be read by an elite priesthood. Just a few centuries ago the printing [...]
Read MoreWriting by your wits to survive
Writer and journalist James K Walker reminds that writers are not bottom of the food chain, but street peasants living by our wits. Now that the novelty of the internet is wearing off, writers seem ever more determined to turn their words in to cash. Here’s how you can recycle work, be a bit inventive [...]
Read MoreA Year of Speculation
Talented young writer Will Ellwood reflects on his first year as a member of The Speculators writing group. Approximately a year ago I started attending the meetings of a Leicester based speculative fiction writing group called The Speculators. What I’ve learned since first attending my first meeting with The Speculators are a lot of strategies [...]
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Has social media changed how we write?
Writing is such an old and fundamental human activity that it is easy to forget how much it has changed over time. Only a few thousand years ago the written word had to be carved on to stone tablets, and could only be read by an elite priesthood. Just a few centuries ago the printing [...]
Writing by your wits to survive
Writer and journalist James K Walker reminds that writers are not bottom of the food chain, but street peasants living by our wits. Now that the novelty of the internet is wearing off, writers seem ever more determined to turn their words in to cash. Here’s how you can recycle work, be a bit inventive [...]
A Year of Speculation
Talented young writer Will Ellwood reflects on his first year as a member of The Speculators writing group. Approximately a year ago I started attending the meetings of a Leicester based speculative fiction writing group called The Speculators. What I’ve learned since first attending my first meeting with The Speculators are a lot of strategies [...]
Reading other people’s short stories
James K. Walker is the editor of Write Lion, which means he gets to read lots of other people’s short stories. Judging short stories can be a tense affair, so here James offers words of wisdom on how to keep the drama on the page. Today has been a day of short stories. Not writing [...]
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