The Alice Campions at St Albans Writers' Festival
This weekend, the Alice Campions are speaking about group writing at the inaugural St Alban's Writers Festival. We'll tell you all about...
Eleven Ways To Get Going Right Now
1: Sound out those close to you who share your love of reading and/or writing and call a meeting 2: Agree on a genre 3: Pick a...
Ten Ways to Spot the Perfect Co-Writer
1. They read – a lot! And they like to read the genres that interest you and that you are interested in writing. 2. They ‘’get’’ you. You...
Structure & Dynamic of a Group
NO LEADER OF THE PACK The Painted Sky was never a single person’s project. It grew out of a group conversation, so was never “owned” by...
Being Clear and Deciding What To Write
The five of us who wrote The Painted Sky all had one thing in common when we started – we were all busy women. While we never dreamt our...
Getting Started and Forming A Group
SO, you know you can write but have not had the time, the opportunity or the organisational skills to do something about it. In fact, you...
Feedback Rule 3: Be Solutions Focussed
Whenever you can, come to the feedback meeting with suggested alternatives for the piece of writing you are contributing to. Whether it’s...
Feedback rule 2: Be specific
It can be extremely frustrating to have your work dismissed with a vague, generalised statement – it’s dull, it’s slow, it’s too Gothic,...
Feedback rule 1: Be sensitive
There you are at your feedback session and one of the other writers is reading out their work. You have plenty of notes that you've...
The three essential S’s of giving and taking feedback.
Without doubt, the biggest challenge for any group writing fiction is how to meld your various creative styles and ideas into a single...
