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How to take creative criticism from an editor

Posted on March 29, 2021June 23, 2021 by Toby Bennett

Creation is often a lonely process and it can sometimes feel like you are the only one fighting for your vision. It’s all too easy to be overprotective when someone starts messing around in your narrative. Here are some tips for how to handle creative feedback.

Beware The Invisible Critic – Why writers need to stop self-censoring

Posted on April 28, 2020March 26, 2021 by Toby Bennett

Don’t be paralysed by fears and attitudes inherited from others if you want to freely create and at least consider the possibility that our jailer might reside in our own imaginations.

Get to know Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature silver winner, Toby Bennett

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Skolion

Last month, one of our members,  Toby Bennett, was awarded the Silver Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2019 (in the English category). We thought you might like to get to know him…

Fighting the story teller’s expectations

Posted on October 20, 2019March 26, 2021 by Toby Bennett

“I do wonder, though, if the potential for disappointment with life doesn’t increase in proportion to one’s capacity to imagine something better.”

Why every writer should roleplay

Posted on May 13, 2019September 27, 2019 by Toby Bennett

For the uninitiated, roleplaying is simply the exercise of collaboratively telling a story with the use of a system (usually dice-based) to determine the outcome of various actions – as opposed to…

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