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Writing Quips and Tips
Allaboutlove’s Online Writing Courses
It is said that most people have a book in them. We’ll help you release your inner romance novel, with our kind and practical writing courses.
Writing Quips and Tips
Allaboutlove launches online courses
June 3 2008 is a red-letter day at Allaboutlove. Today is the day that we launch two versions of our Basic Guide to Writing Romantic Fiction
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Gail Gilbride-Bohle
Gail Gilbride-Bohle is a dedicated reader of allaboutlove.net, and a keen writer of romance. She has written several short stories, some of which can be found on our site. She has completed our Preparation course, our basic Romance Writing Course and is busy with our Advanced Guide. With our feedback, she has already written five chapters of her first novel.
As an incentive to other would-be writers, we are introducing her to you here – perhaps you will identify with her triumphs and her struggles, as she tries to make herself the best writer she can possibly be.
Writing Quips and Tips
Rules of Engagement
It’s something to do with the nature of creativity, I suppose. But people in writing groups share intimacies.
They may not intend to write about themselves, but somehow the creative process forces them to introspect. It makes sense. How can you begin to understand the motivations of others, if you haven’t looked starkly at yourself?
Writing itself is an extremely personal process. Bringing it into the open can make the most confident person feel exposed. It know it has to happen eventually and you understand that you shouldn’t take criticism personally (Yeah right!).
Okay, let’s say no more about that. We all pretend to be mature (some more successfully than others), but deep down we all want to kill anyone who suggests we murder any of our babies.
We recently ran a creative writing weekend during which participants expressed fears about having exposed themselves. They felt incredibly vulnerable. We’ve always talked about the way to behave in writing groups. But this group made us realise that perhaps we should formalise it.
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