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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.
Here’s Why You Should Not Write A Memoir
Deciding to write your memoir is a big decision. There are so many beautiful reasons why you should write a memoir. Saving your memories and documenting your life is so important.
Yet writing a memoir isn't for everyone.
Here’s Why You Should Not Write A Memoir. It would be best if you spent some time exploring why you want to write your memoir before you get started. Let me explain.
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 Thoughtful Creative Writing Can Actually Help Save Precious Memories
Creative writing has many known benefits, yet often people are intimidated by the prospect of starting. One way to dive into creative writing is through documenting your personal memories and life moments that might otherwise disappear. You don't have to start with make-believe stories if that feels too difficult. You can write about your life, loves and experiences, and in doing so, you can treasure them forever. Even passing them on to family as your legacy. Thoughtful, creative writing can actually help save precious memories.
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.