Here is a big list of all the posts that we have published on this blog. Some of the oldest ones are actually imported from our former blog so the archive goes way back before this blog was here.
Some of the oldest posts are actually imported from our former blog so the archive goes way back before this blog was here.
Curated Archives
Full Archive of blog posts
- Keeping Your Side Characters Distinct – Brandon Sanderson’s Writing Lecture (2025)
- Is my idea good enough?
- Writer Talk Carnival: Your writing strengths
- How many words should a novel have?
- Is it Wether or Weather or Whether?
- Writer Talk Carnival: Writing Tools & Style
- A conceptual gold star for some amazing people
- Word gangs, clones, and pacing
- Chaotic Creators Magazine’s Writing Competition
- Semicolons
- Writing Lessons They Wished They’d Known Earlier
- Tips by Experts for Giving Feedback to Aspiring Writers
- Thanet Creative wishes you all an inspired and fulfilling new year
- How Arms Trafficking Actually Works
- Writers’ research: Profiling serial killers and stalkers for New Scotland Yard
- Where imposter syndrome hits me hardest
- Thanet Creative’s last writers’ night of 2024 is the 5th of December
- Oops. Words Counted is now working again
- Reminder: Our writers’ night is every Thursday at the Wheatsheaf in Margate
- The only failure in writing is giving up
- Thanet Creative’s website gets a fresh new look
- Writers, have you ever felt like an imposter?
- Questions for writers
- The easiest way to fix a broken story according to Jed Herne
- First Writers’ Meet and Critique Evening of 2024
- Neil Gaiman on the antidote to rejection
- My problem with “was”
- 5 hard-won editing tips
- A conversation with a journaling coach
- 25 words most writers should avoid
- MixMatched Margate: A Spoken Word Night
- Word of the Week: Eldritch
- Word of the Week: Flabbergast
- Word of the Week: Myriad
- Word of the Week: Anthropomorphize
- Word of the Week: Interlocutor
- Writing Challenge: Describe a villain using only praise
- Word of the Week: Eschew
- Writing Challenge: Describe yellow without using the word yellow
- Word of the Week: Anachronism
- Writing Challenge: Describe a character
- The writing challenge and platform builder
- Word of the Week: Vocabulary
- How to use templates
- Freedom Art Competition for 13 to 18 year-olds (free)
- The Power of Visual Descriptions
- Writers’ night is back – now in The Mulberry Tree
- Due to the risk of the Omicron Variant of COVID-19, live events will continue to be on hold
- Wishing you all a creative Christmas
- Writing Strategy: On Getting Inspired Everyday
- This is how you stop character names giving you writer’s block
- Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival
- Glenn Gers: If you can’t answer these 6 questions you don’t have a story
- Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes?
- Trap doors, off-ramps, and the monsters in waiting
- On Worldbuilding — Island Civilisations
- Word Choice: The secret power of a great writer
- What do you want to learn about WordPress?
- Which creative activities get you hyped?
- What is your dream creative job?
- Five places you can find inspiration
- Writers explore fame
- Writing better dialogue in 5 minutes with Jim Driver
- OSE are seeking applications from emerging artists and writers
- Different but the same (site news)
- How to find the perfect writing group
- Does it throw readers to change tenses?
- The secret price of success when… (please don’t copy this article)
- Inspiration for your NaNoWriMo attempt
- One surprising trick to make your descriptions pop
- The price of success as a sequel seed
- The power of what if
- Thanet Creative online events
- Some books should not have sequels
- Dialogue and dialogue tags
- Writing competition Hi 2020
- Writers explore research for fiction
- The challenges of first-person perspective
- Story endings good and bad
- How to create three-dimensional characters
- The use of tenses and narrative viewpoints
- Thanet Creative Skills Centre
- Social engagement boost
- Make your Word Processor work harder
- Is it hard to become a writer?
- Writers investigate: Bloody murder
- How are you passing the time?
- Live Storytime with H. E. Theatre Kids
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Thanet Creative Events
- H. E. Theatre Kids
- Photography’s Magic Hour
- A selection of writing prompts
- Flaws maketh character
- The last few meetings of 2019
- A muse for your NaNoWriMo
- Writer’s night is back
- How Zipf’s law applies to every writer’s word count
- A great week of children’s workshops
- A week of creative writing workshops for children
- Do you actually value your writing?