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Jun
Jun
An Introduction to Unveiled: The First Unthank School Anthology
All revolutions start with five people meeting in an upstairs room It will be raining outside and early in the week as well as the year. Christmas decorations will have
Jun 2019
Mar 2019
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Mar
Mar
‘A creative writing class can be anything.’ An Interview with Georgina Parfitt
Georgina Parfitt has recently joined the Unthank School team to teach An Introduction to Writing Fiction in Norwich. We sat down to find out all about Georgina and her
May 2018
08
May
May
Motivational Writer’s Toolkit
I’ve just finished teaching two online groups for the Unthank School of Writing, the modular How To Write A Novel course and the Online Fiction Workshop. These were hard-working
02
May
May
Writing short stories
Tania Hershman on how to write short stories What is a short story? As a writer, I'd rather ask: What can I make the short story do for me?
Mar 2018
27
Mar
Mar
How to Talk About Your Writing
So, what’s your novel about then? This is the question — the terrible, dreaded question — that causes most new writers to stammer and squirm, or gabble and gush.
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Mar
Mar
How to get to know your minor characters
In a recent online workshop, some students said that they didn’t feel they knew their minor characters well enough to predict how and why they might behave in certain
07
Mar
Mar
9 Tips for Establishing a Writing Routine you can Stick to
Writing a novel asks more of us than just the ability to come up with an intriguing idea. Stories are not born. They are made by trial and error,
Feb 2018
26
Feb
Feb
Has My Idea Been Done Before?
by Stephen Carver When Professor Chaos first hit South Park, he was hampered in his evil schemes by the realisation, at every turn, that ‘The Simpsons already did it.’ And
Jan 2018
13
Jan
Jan
How to Workshop
Writing a first novel or first few stories is tricky, maybe terrifying. The process is messy. Obstacles can seem both insurmountable and inscrutable. Work-in-progress can be tentative, experimental or
Dec 2017
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Dec
Dec
What We Talk About When We Talk About Minor Characters
The literary agent Jonny Geller posted recently on Twitter that there are no such thing as minor characters, they each have their own novel, but their story is for