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The Bridport Prize, famous for 'discovering' Kate Atkinson, and which includes categories for poetry, short story, novel and flash fiction, closes 31 May. This year it includes a Never Too Late Award for writers of 60+ which, it says, 'unlocks...

Inspired by a conversation with a friend of mine, your April challenge is to complete the following to create One Perfect Sentence: The split second before I hit . . . The rules are simple: Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by...

Yeah, had the same thing happen to this unknown company charging my creditcard via PayPal. Google the company and you get a lot of complaints of scams. Their website has a contact form that doesn't work. I disabled the automatic payment and hope...

I agree. And I think that's the point, for me at least. I want to be able to show characterisation in how the person behaves or what they say rather than describing them outright and risk breaking that 4th wall.

I think the hard part to learn for me was - is - to write less, to leave spaces in which the reader can put their imagination to work. So I wouldn't say what color hair they had, or if they are thin or overweight. Just a few broad strokes.

Inspired by a conversation with a friend of mine, your April challenge is to complete the following to create One Perfect Sentence: The split second before I hit . . . The rules are simple: Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by...

I feel that the need for physical descriptions depends on the tone of the writing. I've done lush, detailed physical character descriptions when that suited the style, but my preference is for action, background, or personality descriptors. A...

I think the hard part to learn for me was - is - to write less, to leave spaces in which the reader can put their imagination to work. So I wouldn't say what color hair they had, or if they are thin or overweight. Just a few broad strokes.

I feel that the need for physical descriptions depends on the tone of the writing. I've done lush, detailed physical character descriptions when that suited the style, but my preference is for action, background, or personality descriptors. A...

The great thing about reading is that it inspires our own imagination. It doesn't matter that our image of the person is not exactly the same as the author's image as long as it fits the story, so we never have to describe everything about them...

I think the hard part to learn for me was - is - to write less, to leave spaces in which the reader can put their imagination to work. So I wouldn't say what color hair they had, or if they are thin or overweight. Just a few broad strokes.

I feel that the need for physical descriptions depends on the tone of the writing. I've done lush, detailed physical character descriptions when that suited the style, but my preference is for action, background, or personality descriptors. A...

I feel that the need for physical descriptions depends on the tone of the writing. I've done lush, detailed physical character descriptions when that suited the style, but my preference is for action, background, or personality descriptors. A...

The great thing about reading is that it inspires our own imagination. It doesn't matter that our image of the person is not exactly the same as the author's image as long as it fits the story, so we never have to describe everything about them...

I'm partial to describing a character by describing their space and their actions. Here I'm introducing the Prior from the point of view of the protagonist: A massive desk of dark, timeworn wood stood at the center, its surface gleaming...