Introduction

Hello everybody. My name is Alice and I am a writer.

I absolutely love writing, I always have, and I’ve wanted to start a blog for a really long time. But I’ve had no idea what to write about. So eventually I decided to start a blog about writing! I recently attended Emily Benet’s fantastic lecture on blogging at UEA and she advised us not to start a blog about writing (oops). But writing is the only consistent thing in my life that I would love to write about on a weekly basis.

My basic intention with this blog is to offer useful tips and advice on creative writing methods, how to get inspired etc. I know there are thousands of ‘helpful creative writing prompts’ websites online but, if you’re anything like me, you won’t find them at all helpful.

I don’t pretend to be an expert. But I am going into my third year of the creative writing course at UEA and I’m also on the committee for the Creative Writing Society for which a group of us host creative writing workshops twice a week. So, I have access to loads of great writing tips. And if I come across any methods that have really helped me out I will post them here.

I might also use this space to ask for advice on any writing I’m I currently working on or to moan about any big problems that have me stumped and I invite my followers (fingers crossed that I get followers!) to do the same.

This is the first blog I have ever attempted. So you might need to give me a while to find my feet.

I don’t know what this blog will turn in to. It might be a list of creative writing tips. It might be ramblings about anecdotes that have inspired me to write or just about creative writing in general. Or it might be a forum for creative writers to swap ideas. But, whatever this blog turns into, I ask you to bear with me and not give up on me too quickly. 

So, if I’m following Emily Benet’s advice on how to create a good blog, I’ve reached my 300-500 word limit. Which means I don’t have space for any creative writing tips today.

However, I will be back very soon for my very first (proper) entry. So please please check it out!

Thanks for reading.