OTP author Fiona Fieldhouse discusses the motivational force of her writing group, Glowing Embers We are a small writing group consisting of five people of a ‘certain age’ who came together in order to share our writing. Like all good opportunities, the group came together through a mixture of serendipity and good timing. We were all attending the same WEA literature class and the tutor picked up that we were each working on personal writing projects and encouraged us to meet

OTP author Fiona Fieldhouse discusses the surprising influence of the books she has loved. I was on a quest, utterly focussed, unshakeably sure that I would be a writer until a book made me change direction and turned me into someone quite different. Initially an oak tree, darker green than its neighbours and bearing many different fruits, inhabited by pixies and enchanted forest folk, captured my imagination. It gave me that unmatched magic experience of being drawn into ano

Creativity is a strange concept. Many of us think it means being able to paint, sing, write, or dance. Others see it as the way in which...

If you are in-between writing projects, or just fancy trying out a new writing format, writing a short read is an intriguing prospect....