Novels and short fiction demand some different approaches to writing because of their length.  Something that you can spend pages describing in a novel has to be summed up a...

An article from our archives – consistently one of our most popular postings! When international bestseller Alex Barclay sang the praises of Scrivener in this excellent article, we thought we’d investigate...

I’m a bit of a travel-a-holic and I hate routine, so I regularly go on writing retreats to recharge, refresh and write somewhere new. Some of these retreats have been...

This is just one reason why Twitter has huge value for writers. Editor Scott Pack ( @meandmybigmouth)  of Unbound tweeted this thread of wisdom and solid gold editorial tips –...

I suppose I’ve always written, even as a child, and no matter which other direction life took me in, it was something I always came back to. Like an itch...

In 2012 researchers at Nebraska University carried out a study, which found that public speaking was the most common fear amongst students, ranking higher than hundreds of other fears, including...

As I was pondering which recollections belonged in my third and final dispatch about my first time at university, NUI Galway before embarking on my portfolio, two lovely uni-related things...

The last time we spoke, I had finished my first semester and was writing essays. This time, I am writing essays. I am writing essays like I have never written...

The first idea for a novel that ever came to me was a murder mystery involving a crime reporter in the Deep South in the US. I had that idea...

My doctor has a theory that there are three kinds of patients: head patients, heart patients and gut patients. Whatever is ailing a patient, they will feel it first in...