5 Things to do when you Disagree with Feedback

5 Things to do when you Disagree with Feedback

Monday, April 19, 2021

Whether it’s from trusted readers, a workshop group, friends, an academic tutor or a professional editor, all writers have to take on feedback. Self-editing may get you halfway, but we all have blind spots. Learning to take critique is a journey – often a messy...
9 Writing Prompts to Inspire a Sentence, a Scene or a Story

9 Writing Prompts to Inspire a Sentence, a Scene or a Story

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

These days inspiration is hard to come by, so if you have time to write but the words aren’t coming, here are some prompts to get you going. What you write could turn into a short story, a scene in your novel, a striking sentence or – nothing. It might remain an...
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: The Writer’s Palette

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: The Writer’s Palette

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Who better than Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, author of the masterful Swan Song, to chat to our BPA Long Writing Weekend crew about the writer’s palette? Kelleigh opened her session with a quote from writer Truman Capote, who inspired her fictionalised debut...
Agent Research: How to Create your Submission List

Agent Research: How to Create your Submission List

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Once you’ve decided your novel is ready to submit to literary agents, you’ll probably want to get going right away, but it’s important to take your time deciding who to submit to. It’s often advised to create a list of about ten agents, submit...
5 Exercises to Try Before Writing Your Novel

5 Exercises to Try Before Writing Your Novel

Friday, November 13, 2020

Once you have drafted your novel and and received feedback on it, there are bound to be issues that you wish you’d thought about more before you began. Of course, so much of a story develops in the process of writing it, but there are exercises worth doing...