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Argleton, Chapter 8: Break-in

Argleton, Chapter 7: Thirds

Word Count 65: Best SFF of the year, British indie bookshops blossoming, book launch tips

Argleton, Chapter 6: An unexpected expected delivery

Argleton, Chapter 5: A late night

Word Count 64: Katherine May on boundaries, Julian Simpson on how to write action sequences

Argleton, Chapter 4: Ibemcester

Argleton, Chapter 3: Found

Word Count 63: Draft Zero’s 'game of the scene', Michael Marshall Smith on writing for TV

Grist: You are invited!

Argleton, Chapter 2: GeoMaps

Fieldwork: Adding improv to the mix

Argleton, Chapter 1: Argleton Fields

Word Count 62: Grist date announced, become a beta reader for Tag, Argleton out on Thursday

Grist

Catch up with Lauren Beukes in conversation

Word Count 61: The Story Loom, The Lovecraft Investigations

Word Count 60: Writerly practice, US author income survey

Word Count 59: WGA strike breakthrough, Discoveries 2024 open...

Webinar: Lauren Beukes in conversation

Word Count 58: The problem with blurbs, Susan Cooper at the British Library

Word Count 57: Arthur C Clarke Award results, what James Gunn's music choices tell us about Guardians of the Galaxy

Word Count 56: Tag and the Six Act Structure, Sex Education, John le Carré Scholarship

First Five Minutes: Sex Education

Word Count 55: BAFTA screenwriting comp, GQ shenanigans, streaming's candle sputters...

Word Count 54: SAG-AFTRA has entered the game

Word Count 53: The state of AI and the Goodreads fiasco

Word Count 52: Ada Lovelace Day is back! Fieldwork update, Clarke Award shortlist

Fieldwork: Do you know where your keys are?

Catch up with Alex North in Conversation

Word Count 51: Alex North webinar on Thursday, insights from sword fighting, planning your writing year

Word Count 50: Kickstart your plot, Wosson Cornwall, anti-perfectionism

Webinar: Alex North in conversation

Word Count 49: Alex North webinar, how to survive new book promo, the LLM-generated shit tsunami continues

Fieldwork: A look at what's to come

Seeking ecologists with a #fieldworkfail to share

Fieldwork: Participant information

Word Count 48: WFTV Screenwriters’ Lab, comedy mentoring, Virago Press Furies short story competition

Is the Notes honeymoon over?

Word Count 47: Why we should all care about the WGA writer’s strike

The Lacemaker

Introducing Fieldwork

Word Count 46: UK bookshops flourishing along with self-published authors, Sitcom Geeks on what a plot is not

Word Count 45: Big Comedy, Radio 4 open call, and US screenwriters vote to strike

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 7

Word Count 44: Substack Notes, Will Storr’s Science of Storytelling webinar, and Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ on her debut novel

It’s not about the fish

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 6

Word Count 43: British Museum literary events, BBC’s Pilot scheme and Open Call

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 5

Word Count 42: New children’s fantasy prize, mentoring scheme for TV writers, and the Afronauts on pre-writing

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 4

Word Count 41: When not to submit, creating well-rounded characters, why do so many action heroes have names that start with J?

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 3

Word Count 40: London Book Fair, the liberation of imperfection and binge watching Detectorists

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 2

Word Count 39: Opportunity for scriptwriters, Charlie Kaufman on writers, and Max Edwards on non-fiction agenting

The Gates of Balawat, Chapter 1

Word Count 38: Upcoming extras, my editing process, how professional screenwriters outline

Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?

Word Count 37: New prize for older debuts, tackling first line dread

Word Count 36: Writing habits webinar TONIGHT, scriptwriting comp deadline TOMORROW, Will Storr webinar next month, plus taking out your head trash and more!

Word Count 35: Tag progress, are you in the mood to write?, why author newsletters are so important, new non-fiction prize for women, playwrights wanted, high list of opportunities for writers, and the enshittification of social media, plus young Grabbity

Word Count 34: Productivity hacks, how to write a synopsis, book vibes, Not Too Busy To Write, Inception plot map, actual fishing rod cat toy

Word Count 33: Deadlines are good, ten tips from Neil Gaiman, Quenby Olson on self-promotion, Why Aren’t I Writing?, and the reintroduction of Grabbity and Sir Izacat Mewton

Word Count 32: Why ‘Just write!’ is terrible advice, The Dark Is Rising, Eli’s coming, finding joy in writing

Why ‘Just write!’ is terrible advice

Word Count 31: First submission of 2023, introducing Fieldwork, About Writing review, 100 rejections, the importance of word choice, and there’s no such thing as an empty box

Word Count 30: Writing progress, Discoveries 2023, The Pat Llewellyn Bursary, hidden medieval name revealed & Netflix frustrations