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

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.

It’s been a productive day here in the Writing to Inspire office. The morning started with the posting of my 1000th ‘first line’ writing prompt. I feel like I should

There’s no doubt that entering writing competitions is a valid goal for writers; they can provide deadlines, credibility, experience, focus and so much more. But what makes a writer enter one competition and not another?

Do you focus on one writing from first draft to submission, or are you one of those amazing people who can focus on more than one project at a time?

Although there are many places to start when you first decide you want to write fiction, this is one way that I regularly recommend.

I’d always thought that crossing your legs while typing was advised against simply because it would cut off some of the circulation to your legs. Turns out I was wrong.

Information and ideas have to be a central focus to any writer. After all, a whole book (fact, fiction or otherwise) can be written around one single idea or fact, as can any other kind of writing. It stands to reason, then,