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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.
5 Amazing Books That Will Improve Your Writing
It’s important to explore craft books and understand the skill and challenges involved in writing.
Learning from the great writers and storytellers that have come before us can be a great way to develop our writing. We have listed some of our favourite books about writing here at Derbyshire Writing School.
This Is Why You Should Always Be Prepared For Inspiration To Strike
Wouldn’t it be amazing if inspiration was all around us?
Sometimes, we might find ourselves trying too hard to find the inspiration we need. It’s not always something we can control. As frustrating as it is, we can’t force the ideas to come to us. Sometimes, we have to let the inspiration find us. Here’s how…
How To Write When You Don’t Feel Like It
Writing should be fun and enjoyable, but sometimes to get our projects finished we need to just show up and put the work in. These five tips will help you power through on days when it feels hard and when you need to write but don’t feel like it.
This Is Why You Should Embrace The Rewriting Process
Wouldn’t it be amazing if our writing was perfect the first time around? Yet this is rarely the case. Edits upon edits upon edits often lead to the best results. Explores the benefits of rewriting and why we should embrace the process.