Now more than ever writers are using social media to present their personal brands, taking their careers to the next level. Featuring your work online can lead to glowing reviews from fellow writers and can lead to requests from editors and publishers. Here are a few tips on how you can use social media to …
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It’s 2021, finally. Which means it’s the end of submissions for our first creative writing competition and what a whirlwind it has been. We launched Swoop Books with three people socially distanced in an office and now we have a over 200 stories to read, not just from the United Kingdom but from across the …
In the Swoop Office we are thinking about Christmas, well, Christmas cake to be more precise! We like the way that so much love and care goes into the creation of a Christmas cake and think it is rather like creative writing. In fact, the more we think about it, the more the two seem …
‘Summer Holiday 2020 (post Covid)’ by poet Carmel Gibbons. This poem offers an endearing insight into the depth of long-lasting love. The love is revealed through a recollection of a first trip away in the strange summer of 2020. We set out on your birthday We two Searching for comfort Redemption, salvation. The car sagged …
It was during the first Lockdown that I started to write. My partner, now husband (another Lockdown tale) happened to mention that he was going to write a story. This got me to thinking, I could write a story too. In the end I wrote more than he did, even entered a few competitions. Didn’t win, but …
We’ve compiled a list of writing tips to help you get started when creating your own short story. These tips could help you beat that writers block or just give you the motivation you need to put pen to paper. 1. Be committed. Make some time to just sit and write. This can be with …