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Getting professional feedback can be transformative, but once your notes are in, it’s up to you to action them. It can sometimes feel confusing trying to work out the next best steps. That’s why we have created our post-feedback workshop. Using our REVISE model, we will help you build a strategy to implement professional feedback, […]

What EastEnders Taught Me About Writing Conflict At TLC we see hundreds of manuscripts each year. Consistently, there are a few things that writers stumble on. One of these is the issue of conflict. Are the stakes high enough? What is driving the story? Where is the jeopardy being generated from? What, exactly, is the […]

Write without shame, with TLC

What Ghostwriting Taught Me About What Makes a Good Story In a long and storied career, Ashley Stokes has been a published writer of fictions long and short across several genres; a TLC reader and regional ambassador; a creative writing lecturer and founder of a school; a small press publisher and editor of the critically […]

Getting professional feedback can be transformative, but once your notes are in, it’s up to you to action them. It can sometimes feel confusing trying to work out the next best steps. That’s why we have created our post-feedback workshop. Using our REVISE model, we will help you build a strategy to implement professional feedback, […]

In this fun, interactive session, we'll consider what makes the perfect book title.  We'll look at some titles that work (and some that work less well), and analyse why. We'll consider genre, content, and readership. We'll play some interactive games to help demonstrate how a title can perfectly capture the essence of a book in […]

The 7 Principles of (Good) Fiction Nobody wants to write formulaic fiction, but in this workshop we’re going to reframe our understanding of what this might mean – knowing what reader expectations are, meeting them, and then exceeding them. When something isn’t working with a manuscript, nine times out of ten the root cause is […]

What Makes A Literary Bestseller? ‘Does literary fiction even sell any more?...’ If you’ve heard similar and are feeling uncertain because literary fiction is your truest passion, don’t be deterred. In this webinar, literary agent Claire Paterson Conrad takes us through the key ingredients of literary fiction that sells – and sells well. Join us […]