Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellows

When you’re writing a novel, you clearly need a protagonist. You also need one if you’re writing an academic thesis. One of the most successful tools for doctoral students is to envisage the character (or discipline, theory or interpretive paradigm) that undergoes the most profound change during the course of the work. Max Adams explains […]

This is a subject close to my heart – it belies the idea of a chasm between story writing, which is considered ‘creative writing’, and non-fiction texts. Today, Trevor Day’s post on the RLF Consultant Fellows site talks about creativity in essay writing – this applies just as well to writing non-fiction titles. All writing

Jen’s new post on the RLF Consultant Fellows site is about an issue close to my heart – planning. Every year it’s one of the key subjects I cover in my writing-development workshops at Sussex University. Like Jen, I always discover that many students start writing without having planned what to say. Although I’m not

This week’s top tip from RLF Consultant Fellow Lucy English deals with the scourge that affects many authors, whether they’re trying to write an essay, thesis or novel: writer’s block. Lucy has a very simple solution: https://rlfconsultants.com/category/top-tips/  

However good your skills are, they are no use unless you can communicate them clearly to others. In this week’s What’s Happening? blog from the RLF Consultant Fellows, Esther Selsdon has some advice about being sensitive to your audience and communicating clearly to get your message across. Esther is currently ghost writing the autobiography of

In this new RLF Consultant Fellows blog that I commissioned and edited, writer Lucy English presents an innovative physical approach to coping with writer’s block. This could prove invaluable for students and all kinds of writers. https://rlfconsultants.com/category/whats-happening/

The first of the new Top Tips blog I’m commissioning and editing for the Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellows has just been posted. Top Tips is a series of helpful hints for students, academics and all kinds of writers, written by experienced authors who teach writing development skills in universities. Please read and share widely.

Today, the first blog of the two blogs I’m commissioning and editing for the Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellows went live. There are two types, to be posted on alternate weeks. What’s Happening? presents the unique perspective of one professional writer in turn, and the relationship between their own creative work and the writing development

I’ve been commissioned to run a couple of blogs for the Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellows website: https://rlfconsultants.com. For over 10 years, the RLF has been placing professional writers in universities to offer one-to-one tutorials to students to develop their writing skills. It’s proved a huge success. Recently, former Fellows have trained up to facilitate