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No matter where you are on your creative writing journey, we can help you build your knowledge and grow your creativity. Updated weekly, our blog will inspire and support you with tips & tricks and useful resources.
Why Creativity Is The Most Important Skill In The World
Once we can know and believe that creativity is a skill, we can then understand and harness our ability to increase and develop our creativity. We can see it as a learnt behaviour, something we can improve in. This provides ownership and can empower us. You can become more creative. At Derbyshire Writing School we believe creativity is a skill, it can be taught and practised, and you can become ‘better’ the more you exercise your creativity muscle
What Is NaNoWriMo & How Do You Take Part?
Every year on the first of November, if you listen very carefully, you’ll hear the frantic tapping of keys. It echoes around the globe as writers from all stages of the writing journey unite for one month and share a single goal. To write a 50,000-word manuscript in thirty days! What an adventure. What a challenge! Are you up for it? You can be with our help, read on to find out how.
How Can Your Life Inspire Amazing Fiction?
We associate fiction with imagination. The creation of new worlds. But there is an alternative source of inspiration. A creative writing secret that unlocks a stream of other creative ideas. Ideas that can inspire blow your mind fiction. Do you know what it is? Your life!
Yes, that’s right, your life. Here is why and how.
3 Reasons Play Is The Best Way To Develop Creative Writing
When You Write A Story Online, Does It Feel Like All Work And No Play? What if taking your writing opportunities too seriously stifled your creative writing, rather than unleashing heaps of energy to change the world through your words? And now comes the best part - these three ideas combining play and writing could boost your creative writing activities to the next level. Let me explain.