Clara Challoner Walker
Nov 15, 2022
What's on our Minds this Winter?
Our theme for our November virtual writing workshop on 26th November 2023 is Money, the thing that’s on most of our minds at the moment....
Clara Challoner Walker
Oct 13, 2022
Looking forward to a great Writing Winter
We're still celebrating after our wonderful retreat in beautiful Haworth last week. We welcomed twelve enthusiastic writers to a week of...
Clara and Janet
Aug 31, 2020
Who is telling the story?
In this month’s blog we are taking a look at narration. We’re asking ourselves ‘who is telling this story’? Take a look at the three...
Clara Challoner Walker
Jul 31, 2020
Bees - A Metaphor For Human Behaviour, Society & Politics
In this month’s blog we are taking a look at metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that...
Janet Dean
Jun 27, 2020
Celebration Time - Our Fifth Birthday
This month Awakening The Writer Within celebrates its fifth birthday! Our first weekend writing retreat was held from the 19th to 21st June
Janet Dean
Jun 8, 2020
Write Through The Summer And Into Autumn with Awakening The Writer Within
Hello and welcome to summer! Is there light at the end of the tunnel? As many of us emerge from a locked-down spring into summer, there’s...
Janet Dean
Mar 11, 2018
Living Breathing Characters
This blog is about writing characters. It has examples and exercises to help you breathe life into your fictional characters.
Janet Dean
Feb 10, 2018
A Body Is Found In The River
What gets you writing? Something you overhear on a train, a place you visit on holiday, a facial expression you catch in a cafe, a story...
