A Pre-Christmas Gift From Me

Twelve craft essays from brilliant writers

For the two years on my Substack, I have run a little series over the Christmas holidays. It is called Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice, and it starts - obviously - on Christmas Day running right the way through until Twelfth Night when we all take down our decorations and set our writing intentions for the year ahead.

I absolutely love this series, and those who have followed me for a while will be pleased to know it is making its return this year.

Each day of the twelve, a different author will share with you their best writing advice, and there are some absolute gems among them.

So, in readiness for this year’s series, I’ve taken down the paywall for the first series and I’ve listed them all in this post for your delectation.

This is a brilliant resource for writers and a great place for readers to learn a little more about how their favourite writers write. There are, in fact, so many posts that I see this post will be too long for your email, so you may have to click on ‘view entire message’ if you aren’t reading in the App.

To ensure you receive this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice straight in your inbox make sure you’re subscribed here:

And not too long now to wait and see which guest authors I’ve got lined up for you this year.

Enjoy catching up in the meantime!

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