P17 Interview – S A Jones
page seventeen has had a lot of varied authors featured across eleven issues – close to 400 individual writers if we wanted to sit down and count them all. That’s … Continued
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Writing Your Story
A lot of people want to write their life story. And yet a lot of people have the same query: Who’d be interested in reading about me? The answer? Sombody. … Continued
P17 Issue 11 Reflections – Joshua Coldwell and Anne Hotta
One more day. That’s it. That’s as long as we need to wait for the new issue to be available. From 7pm on 19 November, Issue 11 is live and … Continued
Wanted: Verb
If you wanted to hang a picture, and had to hammer a nail into the wall, you’d use a hammer for the job. Sure, you could probably use the blunt … Continued
P17 Issue 11 Reflections – Kevin Gillam, Holly Zwalf and Ben Grech
In just over a week, the wait is finally over. The open mic night on 19 November is open invitation, so come along if you can and celebrate the launch … Continued
Attributors
Attributors. Firstly, let’s define what they are. They’re the bit of narrative that tells you how dialogue is being said. For example: ‘Hello,’ Bob said. ‘Are you coming over … Continued
A Partially Weeded Garden
In my last post I talked about ‘weeds’ in writing – extra adverbs, dangling plot threads and so on. They’re all derided almost universally as pests, and able to overrun … Continued
The Shape of Writing
Here’s a writing exercise to try before this blog unfolds in earnest: write a scene in which your protagonist comes home and finds the corpse of their beloved partner lying … Continued