The next meeting of West Lothian Writers will be on Tuesday 7th of February between 7pm and 9pm 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 [...]

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Back in December Selfpublishingstepbystep.com published an article called Editing 101 which comprised of 18 tips on the subject. They were: One of the first things they may or may not tell you in your writing classes or seminars, is that in a novel it’s all about the action. It’s about doing things. People don’t ‘begin’ to [...]

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It has been a while since I posted up advice from BBC Scotland’s Writers’ Corner so here is Carl MacDougall discussing what makes Good Poetry. MacDougall says the first thing you have to do to write good poetry is to read good poetry. His article looks at what poetry should be at its best (and worse!) and [...]

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Last time I posted something from Writing.ie it was Noelle Harrison‘s Tips on Getting That Book Written. Today I’m following a similar theme by looking at the suggestions of John Boyne, Claire Kilroy and Chris Binchy on Getting the Job Done. Each offer five ideas. John Boyne (has written many novels for adults and children including The [...]

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At the last WLW meeting Jane McKie presented us with a couple of short exercises. There was meant to be three but we ran out of time for the third one. We will do that exercise at the beginning of the next meeting. The first exercise requires you to note down your five favourite words [...]

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Back on the 15th of January I posted an article from J. T. Krul about writing comic books in Full Script. Here is the second style he mentioned – Plot Style. When writing in plot style, you don’t include panel breakdowns.  Instead, you simply provide an overall description for the page, setting the scene in [...]

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Fantasy-Faction Anathology is a new anathology looking to do things a little differently. They want to full their publication with a mixture of published and unpublished authors giving you the chance to showcase your work and gain the recognition that could propel you towards a career in writing. How do you get involved in this [...]

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The West Lothian Writers website has posted almost twenty different articles about genres ranging from science fiction to comedy. However, how can you tell one genre from another, especially when looking at examples like comedy. Luckily Daily Writing Tips have produced a post on 35 Genres and Other Varieties of Fiction. Now I won’t post [...]

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For our second meeting of 2012 saw another great turn out with nine people turning up. This was probably down to the fact that poet Jane McKie came along to present a short workshop focusing on the words and metaphors people use in their work (a full post on her workshop will be posted shortly!) [...]

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Tamasha is offering the opportunity for an artist(s) to present a response to Snookered, a play that is a part of their Small Lives, Global Ties season and win a £500 bursary. You could be an actor, director, writer, film-maker or group of artists presenting a piece of writing, performance poetry, actors’ response etc. The [...]

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