Sitemap - 2024 - Writing Talk

Using AI Art as writing prompts

The writer’s balancing act

Perfect Pitch - using music to generate stories

Story Endings - enhancing your readers’ experience

Finding writing prompts on your bookshelf

Foraging For Ideas - Using Nature As Inspiration

Writing exercise - igniting the enthusiasm in your writing

Locating The Energy In Your Abandoned Drafts To Revive Or Reuse Them

The Importance of First Impressions

Does a story really need conflict to work?

Defamiliarisation - a fun way to embrace the strange in your writing

Embrace the strange in your writing

Make your readers care

Writing funny - it’s a serious business

The Anatomy Of A Rejection

Positive Procrastination – Finding Gifts From The Universe

Be more dog! How to shrug off those writing blues

Honouring Your Own Experiences

I’m Ken and I’m a writer from a working class background - so live with it!

Character is destiny

The magic that happens when turning characters into people

Record your work and open your writing self to your reading self

It’s time we pulled the art of good feedback out of the shadows

An A-Z of thoughts on this writing life

Are you in the mood for improving your stories?

Your own picture is worth a thousand words…or at least one good story idea

Divergent Thinking To Increase Your Creativity? Now There’s An Idea

Don’t Dismiss The Power of Play

What a daffodil can teach us about improving our writing in the Discomfort Zone

How a real-life car crash gave me useful insights into characterisation

Finishing what you started

Nocturnal inspiration and writing

What I have learned about submitting to publishers and writing competitions – Part Two

Story Openings - Part Two

What I have learned about submitting to publishers and writing competitions – Part One

New Year and Story Openings - Part One

Resilience and Persistence - A New Year’s perspective for writers