Writing What You Love is Writing What You Know is an article by Howard A Jones discussing eight writing tips he prepared for a lecture. To see each point in full please visit the original article at Tor.com. 1) “Write what you know” may be trumpeted a lot, but you can’t apply it literally. Write what you know [...]

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Tonight’s meeting was different from normal as writer Laura Marney presented gave a talk on how to get published. This included many hints and tips along with some short exercises. Notes from the presentation are below. If you would like to purchase any of Laura Marney’s books please visit Amazon.co.uk We also welcome Caroline to [...]

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West Lothian Writers are pleased to welcome writer Laura Marney to our next meeting on Tuesday 28th of June. Laura will lead a workshop / discussion on aspects of the writing craft. The meeting will be at our usual times and location: South Barn Nether Dechmont Farm Fells Rigg Carmondean Livingston EH54 8AX If you [...]

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It is almost that time of year again. The Edinburgh International Book Festival will be running in Edinburgh between the 13th and the 29th of August. This year they are running a number of creative writing classes. For more information or to book a place please go to the Edinburgh International Book Festival Website or [...]

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Anne attended a conference led by prolific children’s writer Nicola Morgan who wrote “Write to be Published” and wanted to share what she had out with everyone else.   Nicola said that the opening paragraphs of a children’s books should describe the main character immediately and go straight into the action.  There should be no preamble [...]

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This week’s meeting saw a new member of WLW join us. Pauline Hunter had read at the recent West Lothian Write event which was very well attend and facilitated fantastically as always by Ellie Stewart. Nineteen writers participated with a variety of poetry (including one read in Norwegian), prose and songs. Robert reminded everyone that [...]

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The next meeting of West Lothian Writers will be on Tuesday 14th of June from 7-9 pm at the usual location: South Barn Nether Dechmont Farm Fells Rigg Carmondean Livingston EH54 8AX If you are not sure where you are going either type the above post code into your sat nav or follow the map [...]

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Diablo Cody, Oscar winning writer of Juno, has just seen her TV series United States of Tara cancelled in America. She reflects that “I think if I did do TV again, I would do it differently. I think it might be a more solitary process. I don’t think I ever got the hang of the [...]

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Here is a link to three science fiction writing exercises from Monica Valentineli. They are designed to get creative juices flowing by focusing on three elements that are common through science fiction: – Aliens, New Technology and the Apocalype.   To try out the three writing exercises please follow the link below: http://io9.com/5544829/three-science-fiction-writing-exercises   Monica [...]

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This post does what it says in the title. The first site I would like to point you to is  Wordle.net which is a website that generates “word clouds” (like the one we have on the right-hand column). The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. This is [...]

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