The end of June is actually upon us! First and foremost, we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride and found all of our posts invaluable and helpful to your blossoming writing careers. For the last post, we thought it might be a great idea to give you a whole bunch of awesome resources to submit […]
It’s two days before the end of June, and the end of National Young Writers Month! Today’s post is for all the worry warts out there, especially to those worrying that won’t be able to meet their NYWM deadlines. You have to bear in mind that goals are a motivational technique in itself – if […]
We’ve discussed planning the novel and how to get that amazing first sentence to get the ball rolling, but what happens when you’re near the end but you don’t know how to end it? Like the beginning of your written piece, the ending is just as difficult to write. You have to be able to […]
Let’s be honest, goals can be difficult to maintain let alone fully complete before a deadline, so what do you do to stay motivated when trying to achieve your writing goals? Many of you should be towards the end of their writing goals, so we thought we might give you so more motivational pep talks […]
Name: Victoria Nugent Age: 25 State: New South Wales What is your NYWM goal? I plan to take part in Pitch, Bitch each week, complete two short stories and attempt to revive a moribund blog. What kind of writing do you do? I’m a journalist by day. Outside of work hours I write everything from […]
So you want to be an editor… When you really think about it, everyone is an editor in some way or another. Every single day we edit – a writer revises his manuscript, a teacher stops mid sentence to enhance clarity in his coherency, a students edits their assignment. But a professional editor doesn’t just […]
Banter is Express Media’s monthly chat series with writers about their work. This month we sat down with Oliver Mol, winner of the 2013 Scribe Non fiction Prize. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYKxGQruXf8]
National Young Writers Month is almost finished! Today we thought it might a good idea to touch base with how your NYWM goals are progressing. Look back on how June has been for you – have you achieved a lot? have you achieved nothing? How far did you get into your written pieces? Now if […]
Love theatre but hate acting? If so, then playwriting may be just the thing for you. The thought process to playwriting is similar to that of novel writing. First you need to look at the kind of genre you’d be interested in. Then produce an outline, then a draft then a final copy. For more […]
The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is a developmental award to foster talented writers aged 30 or under who are working on a longform or book-length nonfiction work. In addition to a cash prize of $1,500, the winner receives the opportunity to meet with a publisher or an editor and to experience the process of working with […]
