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.
Tag: Toby Bennett
Beware The Invisible Critic – Why writers need to stop self-censoring
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
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
“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
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…