Again for the second fortnight in a row we both welcomed and said goodbye to members of WLW. Sadly tonight was Robert’s last meeting as he will be moving to Hartlepool in the new year. However, WLW welcomed Scott to the group who recently had one of his scripts turned into the movie Electric Man. [...]

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Why Fictions Freest Genres Need Its Most Rigid Rules is a great article by Tasha Robinson over at the AVClub.com discussing the ‘rules’ of a story, especially science fiction, horror, and fantasy.  They look at both good examples – the new Stephen King novel 11/22/63 - and the many bad examples – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and In [...]

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Here is an article from Daily Writing Tips that will provide Five Tips to Clean Up Your Writing from a grammetical point of view. The tips are: Always Use Serial Commas  - The policy of preceding every item in a list but the last one with a comma is commonsensical. Confusion is possible when you don’t and highly unlikely when you [...]

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The fifth author in The Guardian‘s list of Ten Rules For Writing Fiction is Helen Dumore. She is a poet, novelist and children’s writer. During her career she has won a number of prizes including the Orange Prize. Sadly she only offers up nine rules but they are still very useful:   Finish the day’s writing when you [...]

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Tonight’s meeting saw seven people including a new member Barbara. Sadly it was also David’s last meeting as he is moving Midlothian. West Lothian Writers wish him well with his work in the future especially his novel The Mechanician’s Apprentice. We are also proud to announce that local author Jane McKie, who recently won the [...]

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The next meeting of West Lothian Writers will be on Tuesday 29th of November 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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 “If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well read.  But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.” Lily Tomlin Clare Dowling has written over 100 episodes for Irish Soap Fair City so who better for Writing.ie to ask for Tips for Writing For TV. Remember having the great [...]

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According to Daily Writing Tips the following 10 Intensifiers You Should Really Absolutely Avoid. Whether you do or not is very much up to you but they suggest that doing so will strengthen your writing. The terrible ten are: Absolute: The original sense of absolute is “ultimate,” but now it is weakly used as an intensifier. There are [...]

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Writing is sometimes very very easy. Often however, it isn’t so to some that you are not alone I wanted to share the thoughts of five published and very famous authors who all struggled to write at some point or another. All the quotes were first collected on The Scottish Book Trust‘s article NaNoWriMo Writing Is Not [...]

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An essential part of any creative writing is the Revising and Rewriting of your piece. Below Cat Rambo offers there four points of advice on the subject: Time is your friend. Putting a piece away for a week or so lets you go back to it with a more dispassionate eye. Revising is a good time to [...]

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