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The Enterprising Writer is a blog for writers. All about managing, writing, publishing and marketing your work.
This blog project is currently on hiatus whilst we work on other stuff but we’re leaving it up for now as it’s full of some really interesting, inspiring, useful stuff (in our opinion!) Feel free to comment and ask questions it is still being moderated, just not very rapidly!
What’s our Story?
The Enterprising Writer is a blog for writers. All about managing, writing, publishing and marketing your work.
This blog project is currently on hiatus whilst we work on other stuff but we’re leaving it up for now as it’s full of some really interesting, inspiring, useful stuff (in our opinion!) Feel free to comment and ask questions it is still being moderated, just not very rapidly!
The Enterprising Writer Blog
Your weekly writing inspiration
The Enterprising Writer is a blog for writers. All about managing, writing, publishing and marketing your work.
This blog project is currently on hiatus whilst we work on other stuff but we’re leaving it up for now as it’s full of some really interesting, inspiring, useful stuff (in our opinion!) Feel free to comment and ask questions it is still being moderated, just not very rapidly!
Agent Interview – Clare Coombes: “Don’t say your book is unlike anything else out there!”
We've decided to put the blog on hold for a while and focus on other things, but we thought we'd go out with a bang with this fantastic interview [...]
A conversation about conversation
My long career as a teacher means that I have seen any number of lunatic educational experiments come and go. As a student in 1964, the Initial Teaching Alphabet [...]
Author Interview – Nikki Dudley: “I started writing as a kid and always loved it”
Some great writing advice and inspiration this week from the talented Nikki Dudley. Poet, prize-winning novelist, editor of Streetcake magazine, writing mentor, editor, proofreader, she also runs MumWrite, to [...]
May Accountability: Working out what works best for you
April has been quite a challenging month for me and as I write this, it's not quite over! You may have noticed I missed a post on Good Friday, [...]
Author Interview – Josa Keyes: “I want to make people laugh and cry”
This week we're talking to poet and author Josa Keyes all about her work, her writing process and her reading pile You’ve published two novels, One Apple Tasted (2009) [...]
Author Interview – Tessa Buckley: “I don’t have a detailed plan when I start writing”
Successful author Tessa Buckley discusses her transition from non-fiction to fiction, what inspires her to write and how she is already attracting some attention from agents with her current work-in-progress: [...]
April Accountability: Join a writing group and enter a competition!
Hey! How are you doing? And more importantly, how are your writing projects going his month? Me? I just entered a story I've written into the NAWG Members competition. [...]
Author Interview – Ceril Campbell: “Don’t give up”
Ceril Campbell was led to believe that no agent or publisher would be interested in the novel that she self-published during lockdown. Thankfully she was wrong and she is [...]
Guest Post: Mary Hallam on her writing journey
This week we have a guest post from Enterprising Writer Mary Hallam who talks about her writing journey and how she was inspired to challenge herself by writing 28 [...]
Why you shouldn’t hate poetry…
There have not been many upsides to events of the last couple of years but something that has really benefited me during times of ropey health and isolation has [...]
The Enterprising Writers membership website – What happened next…
It’s been a long time since I blogged on here and a lot has happened with the Enterprising Writers membership website (enterprisingwriters.com) since the start of the year. If [...]
Things to look out for when editing your own novel
Everybody’s writing method is different. The planning process varies immensely. Whether it’s yellow notebooks or Post-it notes or straight to the computer or speech to text… whether it happens [...]
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