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Inside Story – The Writing Coach Membership

February 11, 2022

A guest post by Jacqueline Smith, member of Inside Story. My first experience of  The Writing Coach was through joining Inside Story, but I’d first met Jacqui many years ago when she was teaching creative writing courses at Richmond College. Fast forward twenty odd years of life, work and family to February 2021 and the …

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How The Writing Coach Helped Me Build a Writing Career

August 10, 2021

Discover how The Writing Coach turned my distant dreams of a writing business into an exciting new reality through coaching, writing feedback, and support.

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The Silence of the Archives – A guest post by Pete Langman

February 24, 2020

Our former client Pete Langman, author of Killing Beauties, met his publisher John Mitchinson of Unbound at our Writing Coach ‘Google Academy’ event Here he writes about how we transform archival material when writing historical fiction. If it takes an historian to rediscover an exciting but little-known character’s life, the historical novelist can imagine them …

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Creativity and Leadership – A Guest Post by Trevor Waldock

July 15, 2019

We are delighted to share this guest post by Trevor Waldock. Trevor is one of the best-known, and best-respected, executive coaches in Europe and has worked at the most senior level in organisations across all sectors. The author of Doing the Right Thing – Getting Fit for Moral Leadership, he is also the founder of Emerging …

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Teaching Writing: Editing vs. Coaching

February 8, 2019

A Guest Post by writing coach consultant Delia Lloyd. There’s a scene in one of my all-time favourite films, All that Jazz, that addresses the perennial question about innate talent vs. learned ability. In the scene, the protagonist –  a choreographer modelled on the legendary Bob Fosse – confronts a ballerina in his company who’s crying because she …

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An interview with novelist Stuart Warner

September 21, 2017

In this post, our Founder Jacqui Lofthouse interviews her former client, the novelist Stuart Warner,  author of The Sound of Everything. They discuss his transition from poet to novelist. When we first met, in your writing life you were primarily a poet. What made you want to transition to novel-writing? I recall telling friends how much …

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Writing in the Dark – by Miranda Gold

September 19, 2017

We are delighted to introduce a guest blog by Miranda Gold, novelist and author of ‘Starlings’ – ‘Writing in the Dark’ explores her experience of working with a writing coach: our Founder Jacqui Lofthouse. I arrived at the British Library for my session with Jacqui on three hours’ sleep, carrying an embryonic first draft and unsure …

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Hidden Stories: the story behind the story

March 13, 2017

We are delighted to announce the publication of The Belfast Girl by former Writing Coach Client Caroline Doherty de Novoa. Caroline writes this guest post about hidden stories to celebrate her publication. A lesson in journalism Nora Ephron’s high school journalism teacher once set the class an assignment to write an article for the student …

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The Importance of Reading: ‘Reading as Alchemy’

March 1, 2017

We are thrilled to announce that Miranda Gold, a former Writing Coach client, has had her first novel Starlings published by Karnac Books. To celebrate her success, we are delighted to be the first to publish Miranda’s wonderful lyrical essay ‘Reading as Alchemy’ about the importance of reading – and her take on  keeping the reader ‘on the …

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