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THE CRAFTS OF WRITING with KITCHEN TABLE WRITERS...All you'll need to know to start writing and keep going!


The arts and crafts of creative writing  consists of many techniques, devises and writing skills that can be learnt. Add to that your own individual creativity and you can improve without measure. 



Click on any of the links to take you to the relevant Creative Writing blogpost to understand more about the craft of writing – everything from plotting to pitching...

Before You Start Writing: the blank page

Your Writing Voice Part One; developing your personal voice

Plot Perspective and Dialogue: Imagining yourself into a scene – WeareOCA blogpost

Descriptive writing –– truth is in zoned-in description

The Secret Rules of Writing Golden.Dialogue 

Using Your Rhythm Section

Hatching Your Characters

Are You Your Own Characters?

Pull Your Underpants on Over your Trousers and Fly!: a Look at Character – WeareOCA blotpost

Return to Forbidden Planet: Point of View and Perspective

The Omniscient Point of View – WeareOCA blogpost

Interior Monologue

http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.com/2024/05/are-you-king-of-hearts-writer-7-reasons.html

The King Dies, The Queen Dies: a look a plotting

How writers plot

https://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.com/2024/02/plot-outline-or-synopsis-which-do-you.html

Plot Events And Plot Developments 

Russian dolls: Stucture in Novels

Questing Your Plot – WeareOCA blogpost

Chicken or Egg? Character or Plot first? 

Hand-to-Draft Co-ordination

Off the Peg? Plotting Methods,


Villians: What Would We do Without Them?

Do Novels Need Antagonists?

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me: how to describe – WeareOCA blogpost

Writing Before You Start Writing 

Burrowing Into Writing; Close Observation

How Many Notebooks Does it Take? WeareOCA blogpost

Get all Moody with Crime Writing

Juggling with Story

A Drama in the Shower – writing with tension:  WeareOCA blogpost

Starting to Write Short Stories

Writing a Readable Short Story

Getting into Gear: The Narrative

Clear Up Your Writing Dumps –  weareOCA blogpost

Writing That Very First Draft

Seven Ways to Beat the Block

Top Ten Places to Write your Masterpiece

Write What You Know?

The Commonplace Book; how to keep notes – WeareOCA blogpost

Writing The Four Simplicities: WeareOCA blogpost

Rectangular Memories:Mind-mapping for Writers – weare0CA blog

Screaming: Coping with Rejection (2)

That Beachball Feeling : Coping with Rejection– WeareOCA blogpost

Go With the Flow: free writing – WeareOCA blogpost

The Hollow Places: Tips on Plotting a Novel – WeareOCA blogpost

Zoned-in Description

Starting Your Writing Again

Get the Soundtrack of Your Novel in Your Head

Seven Great Short Stories to Inspire your Own Writing

Gold-starred Rules for Shy Networking Writers

Motive for Murder: Change or Status Quo?

Seven 'Not so Secret' Ways to Get Ink on Paper

The Mood Board


The Very Hard Work of Getting Published

How to Pitch Your Novel in an Elevator

Publishing Creative Nonfiction

What are MA Courses all about

How NOT to Write the Novel of a Lifetime

Torturning a Poem; Philip Pulman's 'Demon Voices:  WeareOCA.com

Creating Great Characters; a look at the Poisonwood Bible


Symbolism in Literature; all the symbols included in this blog are here: https://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.com/search?q=symbolism+in+literature

Symbolism in Writing - The Tree

Symbolism in Writing - The Snake

Symbolism in Writing - The Chair

Symbolism in Writing - The Sea

Symbolism in Writing – The Sun


Allied subject blogs; 

Who Owns Books?

What Writers Do on Holiday

Finding a Writing Soulmate

How Am I Doing?

Learning from the Experts; WeareOCA blogpost

Glastonbury: A Writer's Perspective 

Writers Aloud`; The Royal Literary Fund










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