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How to Get Your Writing Out There

Taking yourself seriously, author platform building, paying it forward and more on how to get your writing out there...

The benefits of self-publishing... Have we got them all? Image Credit: Madeleine Burleson, Creative Commons.

6 Benefits of Self-Publishing

Self-published author Daniel Murphy shares the benefits of the one of the most popular options in publishing for new talent.

"They come to me like ghosts and I have to make them real by getting to know them over time…" Image Credit: Creepy Halloween Images Photography, Creative Commons.

4 Tips for Writing Round Characters

Four easy writing exercises that are bound to bring your characters to life

Workshopping your creative writing offers so many unique opportunities… Image Credit: Abhi Sharma, 2006. Creative Commons.

5 Benefits of Workshopping Your Writing

Kristie Minshall shares the crucial benefits of workshopping your creative writing. Check these out to make sure you're getting the most out of your writing workshop.

Subtle literary devices are always in play...

Literary Devices – Flashback

Tips on using flashbacks in your fiction

Writer's Edit explores literary devices… Image Credit: fin5bjh, 2010.

Literary Devices: Point of View

The choice of POV isn't one that should be taken lightly by any writer.

Emma Donoghue's novel 'Room', shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

Book Review: Room by Emma Donoghue

Room is a compelling, thrilling story, with truly one of a kind characters

Emma Donoghue's novel 'Room' was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010.

Interview with Emma Donoghue, Man Booker Shortlisted Author of Room

Writer’s Edit was lucky enough to interview Emma Donoghue, author of the Man Booker Shortlisted novel, 'Room'.

Fiction & Memory: Jonathan Franzen, Damon Galgut & Julian Barnes.

Fiction and Memory

I remember writing a book. Or trying to, at least. It was a pile of memories I had collected over a three-month period – a collection from which I thought something could be created. These were memories that I had

Literature has a fascination with lighthouses. In that regard, The Light Between Oceans is no different. Image credit: Lorena Flores Agüero

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman – Review

Stedman’s debut novel The Light Between Oceans is a refreshingly honest and heart-wrenching work that is sure to stay with you weeks after finishing it. It tells the story of war hero-turned-lighthouse keeper Tom, and his young, feisty wife Isabel, on the