This year, First Story launched its first National Writing Day to get people writing. So at Ink Academy we created a Twitter competition to keep people writing – offering writers the chance of a free one-off consultation with founding tutor, Marina Kemp.
We were bowled over by the response – not only the quantity but the quality, originality and breadth of the submissions. All submissions were a pleasure to read. It was heartening to know how much amazing writing is being created every day.
This week we will post the pieces by one of our runners-up, Polly Hall, and the winner, M S Pallister. All are extracts from the beginning of novels, as yet unpublished:
Watch this space…
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There are scores of over-quoted rules relating to the craft of writing. ‘Show, don’t tell.’ ‘Make your verbs work harder’ (which generally just means: avoid relying too much on adverbs). And – my personal bugbear – ‘Only write what what you know.’
This last was iterated with great vehemence by a famous author I recently went to see …
We take an honest, unglamorous look at the problems of self-publishing – and point you in the direction of some useful tools to help you overcome them.
If you’re determined on setting out on the self-publishing path, this article will help you see where the problems lie…
Winning piece from the National Writing Day 2017 Competition held on Twitter.
MS Pallister’s nuanced, deeply atmospheric piece of literary fiction left us with a pervading sense of both nostalgia and foreboding. It forms the opening of her unpublished novel. Read the extract here.
Applying to the Ink Academy Writing Course is quick and simple. Just upload a sample of your writing below, along with your name and email address, and we will be in touch with enrolment details.
The sample of your writing does not need to be polished or perfect, or even from the work you want to develop on the course. It is just so that we can ensure our course is best placed to help you. For more details, please see our FAQs.
