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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.
9 Reasons Why Writers Might Hate Or Absolutely Love Libraries
Libraries can polarise writers. It can be love, hate and anything in between. Where do you stand? Celebrating National Libraries Week - this post explores if the theme ‘Your Passport to Reading’ helps or harm writers. Derbyshire County Council Libraries can offer so many wonderful resources. Find out where your local Derbyshire County Council Library is and what you can find there.
How Do You Develop A Writing Mindset?
Mastering your mindset, the way you think about writing, is key to becoming more productive and prolific. The more you write, the better you get, the more disciplined you’ll be and the more you’ll enjoy the process. This post talks about how you can develop a writing mindset. Doubt, fear, judgement and procrastination will always exist, but if we learn to approach them differently with a writing mindset, we can start to overcome them.
The Tool of A Writing Prompt: How To Craft Simple Writing Prompts Into Amazing Stories
Have you ever found how one single sentence sparks a whole character, or a single line of dialogue can shape a novel? That is the power of a writing prompt. Leading us to new places and thoughts that we might not have come across on our own, igniting ideas and developing our creativity.
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.