What is the personal essay? The personal essay is the freest form of literature: this also makes it the hardest to define. Broadly speaking, it can be broken into two...

I fell into food writing by accident, which, when you speak to food writers, is how most of us got into it. It’s a rare thing for someone deciding on...

American author Dianne Jacob’s book, Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More, is an essential reference book for food writers and food bloggers...

How can you produce quality content for your blog when you simply don’t have the time? There may be many reasons why we are time poor but blogs are an...

Once I decided to write a memoir, I undertook to read as many of the great writers’ memoirs as possible.  I read with a writer’s eye, learning something from each...

Alan Taylor has taught screenwriting in the UK., the EU, and South Africa since graduating from the London (International) Film School. This article summarizes one outstanding hurdle that blocks writers...

Shock and dismay where what I faced when I announced my move to Eastern Europe. Most of my family and friends didn’t even know where Poland was on a map...

I could have picked the archivist up and spun him around. The book was saved. An early lesson I learned while researching for When the Hangman Came to Galway was...

Given the remarkable interest from Writing.ie readers in the writing of memoir, we decided to re-publish this excellent series of articles from the authors of The Accidental Memoir, Eve Makis...

Given the remarkable interest from Writing.ie readers in the writing of memoir, we decided to re-publish this excellent series of articles from the authors of The Accidental Memoir, Eve Makis...