Fancy a writing challenge?

If so, why not enter the Writing to Inspire Short SHORT story writing competition?

Well, the winning stories for Writing to Inspire’s recent ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition are now online. Click here to read them.

How do you feel about your work once you’ve submitted it for publication or to a competition? Are you anxious, waiting to hear back? Do you just forget about that piece of work and move on to the next? Or are you somewhere in between?

I was writing up the Writing Tips for the Bodhi Tree newsletter today and it got me thinking on the old question of how many words do we know and how many do we actually use.

First off I wanted to thank everybody who entered our Inaugural ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition. I was suitably impressed with the response, enough so that I will hold another, but more of that later.

If you’ve got a spare couple of hours on your hands and you’ve decided you want to write something – but aren’t working on any project – how would you start writing? Do you have a favourite starting point for writing? Do you have a writing exercise that you do for fun

Well, our First Line short story competition is officially closed. I have to say that I’m suitably impressed with the amount of people who chose to enter – certainly more than I expected for our first competition. So thank you to everyone who sent in a story.

here is some information about the calculations you’ll need to do if you’re looking at putting your book into bookstores.

n every day life almost all of what we know and assume is absorbed through what we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. The challenge though is that we all have a primary sense, a few that are average and one sense that definitely lags behind.

Listening to Karen Kotze, owner of the Bodhi Tree book cafe, talk about about how to get your books taken on by book stores, one thing became incredibly clear …