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The Enterprising Writer is a blog for writers. All about managing, writing, publishing and marketing your work.
We also run an online writing community, Enterprising Writers. If you would like to become a member, you can join here – or sign up for our newsletter for regular writing news, inspiration, prompts and quotes until you are ready to join. Join our Facebook Community for help and support with your writing project. Or follow us here:
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The Enterprising Writer is a blog for writers. All about managing, writing, publishing and marketing your work.
We also run a membership website called Enterprising Writers. If you would like to become a member, you can join here – or sign up for our newsletter for regular writing news, inspiration, prompts and quotes until you are ready to join. Join our Facebook Community for help and support with your writing project. Or follow us here:
Adventures in Playwriting
I have many reasons to be grateful to my kind, compassionate and extremely creative mum. One of the earliest causes for gratitude was that from the age of ten [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 48
Hello and welcome back to the #WRITE2021 Challenge check-in as we head into the last few weeks of the year! I am pleased to report that I astonished myself [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 46/47 with added NaNoWriMo Accountability
Hello, I'm back! If you’re doing the #WRITE2021 Challenge it’s time to check in, and for the month of November I am also inviting anyone who is participating in National Novel [...]
Author Guest Post: Erica Sharlette – Writing with Chronic Illness
This week we have a guest post from Enterprising Writer Erica Sharlette who writes every day despite chronic pain. Erica has developed a statement of intent which includes writing [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 45 with added NaNoWriMo Accountability
If you’re doing the #WRITE2021 Challenge it’s time to check in – and for the month of November I am also inviting anyone who is participating in National Novel Writing Month – [...]
Writing without typing – using speech recognition to write a book
Back in the olden days of 2007 co-writer Martin Levinson and I were interviewing scores of Romany Gipsies to hear about their life experiences for our book Dreams of [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 44 with added NaNoWriMo Accountability
Hi! If you're doing the #WRITE2021 Challenge it's time to check in - and for the month of November I am also inviting anyone who is participating in National [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 43
Hello! if you're doing the #WRITE2021 Challenge, it's time to check-in! Today I'm gearing up for NaNoWriMo which starts on Monday. I started working through my novel planning workbook that [...]
Author Interview – Annalisa Crawford: “I don’t plan”
Often when we begin to write fiction we start with shorter pieces of work. This week author Annalisa Crawford describes how she progressed from publishing short stories to a [...]
#WRITE2021 Check-In Post 42
Hello and welcome to week 42. One of my favourite numbers - according to Douglas Adams it is the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything [...]
Author Interview – Caron McKinlay: “Two out of three ain’t bad”
This week we're talking to inspiring author Caron McKinlay, who not only fulfilled her childhood dream to write a book - she wrote her very first novel, signed with [...]
NaNoWriMo Word Count Tracker 2021
Do you NaNoWriMo? This November I'm going to have a go at writing a novel in a month with some of the Enterprising Writers gang. I've created a special [...]
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