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Postiversary Competition Highly Commended: Is it wrong to describe a fart? by Debbie Ash-Clarke 5 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
This is the first of three Highly Commended entries to the This Itch of Writing 500th Postiversary Competition. I liked this because it tackles a subject which we all have to deal with - how much is T...
"Quantity gives experience, experience gives quality" 29 Jul 2013 | 10:30 pm
In Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury says this: An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come....
Postiversary Competition Third Prize Winner: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From, by Sophie Jonas-Hill 24 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
Congratulations to Sophie Jonas-Hill for this delightful post, which won third prize in the This Itch of Writing 500th Postiversary Competition. Sophie wins a two-night writers' retreat at Retreats fo...
Writing, writing, writing 19 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
I'm spending a few days in Devon, at Retreats for You, having a nice rest from the WIP by tackling a short piece I've been wanting to write for ages. So I apologise for the lack of a post, and when I ...
Postiversary Competition Second Prize Winner: Loving, Hating and Writer's Block, by Anne Goodwin 12 Jul 2013 | 02:36 pm
Congratulations to Anne Goodwin for this terrific post, which won second prize in the This Itch of Writing 500th Postiversary Competition. Anne wins a year's free Full Membership of WriteWords, Full M...
Good versus Garbage: which is your writing today? 9 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
A while ago, on a forum, the question came up of the mood-swings that most writers suffer about their writing: sometimes it seems as if the shift is always towards the negative, from the satisfaction ...
Postiversary Competition First Prize Winner: Seeming & Thinking, by Esther Saxey 4 Jul 2013 | 03:21 pm
Congratulations to Esther Saxey for this fantastic post, which has won her First Prize in the This Itch of Writing 500th Postiversary Competition. Esther wins a free Quick read of 5,000 words, synopsi...
And the Winners of the Itch of Writing 500th Postiversary Competition are... 2 Jul 2013 | 02:39 pm
I was so thrilled to have so many great entries for This Itch of Writing's 500th Postiversary Competition. It was terribly difficult to chose, (as well as terribly difficult to find enough time to cho...
Dreaming the first Queen Elizabeth 1 Jul 2013 | 01:57 am
When I first started dreaming Elizabeth Woodville, fifteen years ago, it seemed to me that the centre of her story was her marriage to Edward IV. But what was that marriage made of? And since writing ...
The Book Doctor will (not) confuse you now 24 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
Winchester is just finishing, York is in September, then there's Verulam, Swanwick, the Historical Novel Society, which is not just historical but international,since it alternates between Britain and...
