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Writing Ideas – Using Non Fiction to Produce Fiction
A Nostalgic Setting For any one reading our regular writing springboards who is doubtful that this method produces results, take a look at ITV’s sublime television series, Home Fires. Incidentally, if...
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Creative Writing – A Great Character Needs Attitude
Here at Loony Literature, we love distinctive characters and feel that an important part of characterization is attitude – theirs not yours. So how can we encapsulate this in our writing? Let’s imagine...
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Writing a Crime Novel – Ideas
A resource to get you started Do you want to write a crime novel but don’t have the confidence? Don’t worry, you could always base it on a real life crime. If you are worried about being sued by the...
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Creative Writing – Research is all important
Losing readers Getting your facts right is an all important part of being a writer. You will lose your readers quicker than a certain party lost its seats at the election if you drop a clanger like...
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Help Your Child To Be Successful – A Simple Way To Introduce Shakespeare Early
If you live in some parts of the world, Britain, for instance, your child will have to study Shakespeare to get an English GCSE. It is often problematic, so much so that students resitting the course...
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Finding Inspiration – Cox and Box – Mrs Bouncer’s Legacy
Loony Literature headed for Scarborough yesterday in an attempt to find inspiration for both actors, directors and writers alike. Did we find it? We certainly did in a performance of ‘Cox and Box, Mrs...
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Writing – Making sure That Your Pongs Stand Out
When we write narrative, it is important that we embrace all the senses. Smell often gets overlooked because it is easy to forget that as our characters go about their adventures that certain whiffs...
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Writing – What to do when you’re sick to death of your manuscript
One of the many things that writers have in common is that when they have been working on a manuscript for a while, they get to the stage that just looking at it sends them checking their emails,...
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Writing – Make your romance specific
Fancy writing a romance but all you keep coming up with is boy works in office and meets girl? You could try the following exercise to make your romance specific. Take a famous couple from history and...
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Why we need to get kids into Shakespeare in Primary School
We at Loony Literature headed up to Hull Truck Theatre last week to see the RSC perform The Famous Victories of Henry V – this is a play, for kids, that brings together all the exciting moments of...
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Trouble in the Coffee House? Get Writing.
Writing is good for your spirit and you don’t have to stay in to do it. It’s really good fun to go to a coffee house armed with your writing paraphernalia and to set your short story in there. If you...
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Writing Workshop – 5 Great Ways To Place A Twist On Putting Your Character In...
When people ask what can I write about, it is often answered by ‘write what you know’. This is good advice but I would like to offer you a twist on that. Think about the things that you do in your own...
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Creative Writing – A Great Character Needs Attitude
Here at Loony Literature, we love distinctive characters and feel that an important part of characterization is attitude – theirs not yours. So how can we encapsulate this in our writing? Let’s imagine...
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