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Monthly Archives: March 2019

STARTING TO WRITE – Lesson 4: Writing better dialogue

March 29, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Starting to Write | 3 Comments

Writing dialogue is something many beginning writers either avoid or rush. It can be hard to see how you can rewrite dialogue. If a character has something to say, don’t they just say it? And if you – the writer – change how they say it, isn’t that cheating? The Exercises you’re going to do […]

STARTING TO WRITE – Lesson 3: Making sure your stories keep going

March 22, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Starting to Write | 1 Comment

Welcome back. Very often, people start writing stories but find they end or stop after a page or two. There’s nothing wrong with that if what’s been told is a complete story. There are different types of short story that are very short. You can find them online if you look up ‘flash fiction’. The […]

STARTING TO WRITE – Lesson 2: What does a story need?

March 15, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Starting to Write | tagged amwriting, short stories

Exceptions In all these Lessons, I’m going to make some very strong statements about what stories need and how they work. There are exceptions. I know this. There are always exceptions. And you can spend your time trying to think of those exceptions. ‘But what about…?’ Or, you can take my statements on trust. You […]

STARTING TO WRITE – Lesson 1: Preparing to write

March 8, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Starting to Write | tagged amwriting, short stories, Starting to Write | 2 Comments

Welcome to the Starting to Write Course. Thank you for at least taking a look at it. The aim of this Course is to get you writing and reading with energy, to help you avoid some painful mistakes, and to show you how you can rapidly improve your short stories. I always tell my students […]

Birkbeck Creative Writing MA and MFA Alumni

March 3, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings | tagged Alumni, Birkbeck, Creative Writing | 2 Comments

Just so I have it all in the same place, I have compiled an incomplete list of former students on the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA and MFAs (some taught by me, some not) and what they’ve gone on to write MFA Students: Eva Aldea, Singapore, Holland House, due February 2023. Leon Craig, Parallel Hells, Sceptre, January […]

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector: Review

March 2, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m late to this, but – Clarice Lispector is the most interesting, probably the best, writer I’ve discovered in the last five years. When I read Agua Viva, I was really startled. She was writing a distillation of something. I wasn’t […]

STARTING TO WRITE – A Free 10 Lesson Course on Writing Short Stories

March 1, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Starting to Write, Welcome | 13 Comments

Do you want to learn about writing? You’re in the right place. Maybe you’ve thought about taking a Creative Writing MA, but seen how much it costs. Or perhaps you’d like to go to a local writing group, but there isn’t one, or it meets at a time you can’t make. Or perhaps you just […]

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