“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” – Jessamyn West, Author of 'The Friendly Persuasion'. #quotes #authorlife #writingtips #WritingCommunity #writing

54th course has just finished today so now would be a good time to let you know how to join our 633 Jericho Writers #SelfEditAlumni. Spaces available for 2025. jerichowriters.com/our-services/c…

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Crooked Seeds is published in the US, UK, India, South Africa, Australia and available in all bookstores and online hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-…

Had great fun chatting with Emma Darwin Emma Darwin about The Ancestor, (not) writing about him and the challenges of writing historical fiction about your own family. Our latest podchat, available on Spotify and now on Youtube youtube.com/@hollandhouse1…

"What you’re trying to pick up is your sense of the voice, tone, shape, pattern, dynamic of this new idea" New on This Itch of Writing: when a writing idea arrives, how do you know what form it should take? buff.ly/4frg1tR #creativeprocess #writingadvice #writerslife

Brecht De Poortere I’d already been writing for years & had some prizes before I ever heard this nonsense (in a £££ novel course) It paralyses folk and isn’t even helpful advice. See Emma Darwin instead emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwrit…

In the last few months I have met or heard from several writers supported by TLC who did NOT get published with the work we saw, BUT for whom it was the impetus to 1) keep going 2) start something new 3) get serious Several are now published. All are happier This is important

There are many good possible outcomes from having your work professionally read, understood & appraised, and getting a publishing contract is only one of them.

30 pieces of Creative Non-Fiction to appraise/mark in 48 hours. It's part of my job, not complaining, but may I make a bid for M&S Honey Roasted Cashews to be an allowable business expense? #creativewriting #teaching

I'm going out, for all the reasons everyone else seems to be. I may be some time. Find me on Substack: emmadarwin.substack.com Threads: @emmadarwinwriter Bluesky: @emmadarwinwriter Instagram: @emmadarwinwriter Facebook: @EmmaDarwinWriter (flex that shift key finger!)

Catherine Cooper Emma Darwin Here’s Emma’s theory!

Speech tags can be a little tricky, as Emma Darwin aptly describes, but overall you're probably better off just defaulting to “said.” buff.ly/3IHErzL

This Itch of Writing: Showing and Telling: the basics emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwrit… Emma Darwin #writing #WritingCommunity

Too close to a character's interiority for too long, the reader needs some relief. Yet too far, the reader struggles to connect. In this online tutorial, Thurs Sep 19, 6-8pm, Emma Darwin will teach you how & when to vary psychic distance: bluepencilagency.com/psychic-distan…

Deadline approaching! There are two (!) bursary places for this month's course. 54 courses, 633 #SelfEditAlumni and a phenomenal success rate. Pls apply and let me and Emma Darwin help you to edit your novel. RTs appreciated.

When you walk in and your friends are there to greet you... Our man in the field, Hamza Koudri, catches up with fellow Island Prizers: buff.ly/3ZkX6eK

Psychic Distance: What It Is and How To Use It emmadarwin.substack.com/p/psychic-dist… Emma Darwin #writing

This remarkable autochrome is far more than it seems, connecting us almost 200 hundreds into the past. This is Father Hivet, parish priest of Saint-Waast, in Soissons, France, who was born 194 years ago in 1830. He was photographed in colour by Fernand Cuville in June 1917,

Can a mug be a muse?????? We've asked authors to share their favourite drinking vessels. This week's elegant writer's mug belongs to Holland House author Emma Darwin Emma Darwin (This Is Not A Book About Darwin), with a tiny peek of things to come in the background...