Starting out

STEP ONE:

Learn to appreciate your own voice. Our voices are often lively and engaged when we talk, but when we come to use our voice...

Invent three new characters. It sounds a lot, right?

Look up. What do you see?

People. The secret is to take several people...

One of the most important parts of a story is the dialogue. How your characters speak, the rhythm of their speech and how they interact with each...

Our inaugural Finding Your Voice online writing course begins in January 2022, and we're working with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to make...

This writing exercise is from the Guide to Writing for Children & YA by Linda Strachan

Try using a spider diagram to help you think...

The setting of your story can be a character in itself. Whether you're using a real-life location or a fictional world for your story, how you...