The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Episode 161: Announcement: The Creative Writer's Toolbelt Podcast relaunches on 3rd September 2021 Aug 06, 2021

Hi and welcome to this brief message about the Creative Writer’s Toolbelt podcast. I have news! The Creative Writer’s Toolbelt is relaunching on Friday 3rd September. To catch all the new episodes you can subscribe to the podcast here:

https://the-creative-writers-toolbelt.castos.com/

After a hiatus of about 18 months I am restarting the podcast. The core mission of the podcast wont be changing. Like you, I love writing and The Creative Writer’s Toolbelt will continue in its purpose of helping you and me to become better writers and produce great work.

itunes pic — **Episode 161 Writing your memoir** Apr 22, 2020

Has the Covid19 virus forced you into being at home with time on your hands? Could now be the time to start that memoir project you've been meaning to get around to for so long? If so, this is the episode for you. My guest for this episode is the journalist, editor, commissioning editor and speaker Ali Hull. Ali is the Deputy Editor of Sorted magazine, and a freelance commissioning editor, who has worked with at least a hundred authors on their books, many of which were memoirs. She has also co-authored a book on grief, and written many press releases, features, interviews and reviews. Since 2003, she has spoken on numerous writing courses, around the UK and in Ireland.

Episode 11 - Creating the individual character Jun 13, 2014

In the last episode we looked at character integrity and how this is founded on 1.Believability/plausibility and 2. The character as an individual. In this episode I'm going to start to look at how a character can become an individual, focusing on descriptive markers and character weaknesses.

Episode 9 - Get Active! Using the right verbs and the right voice to energise your story May 03, 2014

In this episode I cover two issues, using precise and powerful verbs, and also using the active rather than passive voice to energise and drive your story

Episode 8 - 'Just in time' storytelling Apr 19, 2014

Grabbing the reader's attention immediately is a vital part of storytelling. Often writers will start a story too early, or fill the first critical paragraphs with backstory and infodump. In this podcast we explore techniques to make sure your writing grabs the reader right from the first sentence.