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resources_resourcesLooking for advice on how to sell your idea or get published? Look no further!

 

In this section you will find tips from writers, agents and publishers, advice on funding and writing courses, plus all the news stories you need to keep up to date in the writing world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding and Courses

How a year-long writing course changed my life

Mark Spence is a graduate of the MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth and Deputy Features Editor for Nuts magazine. He tells us how completing the MA changed his life and kickstarted his career.
Research for Writers

My top-ten research musts

Rosamund Derry investigates what else a writer needs, aside from paper and pen, to start researching ideas and publishing opportunities. The best news is that many of them are free!
Selling Yourself

Why you need to get online

Why you need to get online

Here's an interesting piece from the New York Observer on why you need to use the web to get your writing noticed and promote your books.

Getting Published

Digitisation: good or bad for authors?

Digitisation: good or bad for authors?Has digitisation made it harder for writers to get their books in print – or is it democratising publishing? Read the thoughts of industry insider Martyn Daniels here.
Industry News

Improve your writing

Improve your writing

MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, is offering a range of one day courses for people who’d like to improve their writing skills for business.

How We Did It

Robert Goddard

Robert Goddard

"It is important not to be disheartened."

Funding and Courses

Writing courses

From free online mini courses to residential writing breaks, here are the writing courses we rate.

Advice

Professional advice websites

Need advice on tax, copyright or software, or an expert to vet a contract? Try these well-recommended sites.

Selling Yourself

Doing your own PR

All writers need to publicise their work. Candace Markwell caught up with Megan Lloyd Laney, PR expert, to find out how to triumph in the PR world.

Getting Published

How to get published

How to get published

Authors, agents and publishers tell all at a London Book Fair master class. Aspiring novelist Phil Williams took notes.

Industry News

Claim your cash

Claim your cash

Have you filed a claim with the ALCS? If you've ever had anything published, they may be holding money for you. Click here to find out more.

 

Selling Yourself

Tune up your voice

Tone of voice is a more slippery concept than it might seem, but it’s at the heart of good copywriting, argues Tom Scott. It's also an essential tool in selling yourself and your author brand.

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Professional Advice

A writer’s job is not to find out if characters are interesting, it is to make them interesting.

Tim Pears, Novelist


Hot Topics

 

Improve your writing

MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, is offering a range of one day courses for people who’d like to improve their writing skills for business.

 

Writing in recession: Sophie Parkin

Sophie Parkin tells Phil Williams how the recession of the early 90s prompted her to switch career – and how she started earning a living from writing.

 

Claim your cash

Have you filed a claim with the ALCS? If you've ever had anything published, they may be holding money for you. Click here to find out more.  

 

Robert Goddard

"It is important not to be disheartened."

 

Writing for teens

Meg Rosoff talked about writing for teens at the 2009 London Book Fair. Profwriting student Fiona Egglestone reports back.

Learn to write by the sea

 

Report and Proposal Writing

This hands-on one-day course is designed for busy professionals to help you write better marketing copy. Run by MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, the course has been  created with solo practitioners, small and medium business, and business support organisations in mind.

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