How to Practice Creative Writing in a Way That Builds Your Skillset Quickly.
Learn how to practise creative writing in a way that builds your skills quickly and sustainably. Explore three essential modes of writing practice, create consistent habits and discover how reading, focused attention, craft exercises and creative community can help you become a stronger, more confident writer.
Between Creativity and Chaos:
Creative freedom does not require us to abandon structure. It asks us to understand, question and reshape it. This article is a comprehensive starting guide to writing creatively in English. It explores how literary form, story architecture and narrative patterns provide the containment needed for rhythm to emerge, fragments to connect and an invisible idea to materialise into form—without relying too heavily on inspiration or invention alone.
What Do We Do With What We Remember?
Memoir sits squarely within non-fiction: we write from lived, remembered experience rather than imagination. In doing so, the page inevitably reveals something of how experience has shaped the way we think, perceive and make meaning. But what emerges from memory is only the beginning. The memoirist's work is to move from the chaotic impulses of somatic memory into considered craft — shaping, cultivating and giving form to what has surfaced.
Research Techniques For Writing Creative Fiction
Research can either fuel your creative process or bring it to a grinding halt. Learn how to scope your research, work with your natural thinking style, and synthesise information in a way that supports — rather than interrupts — your creative writing.
3 South African Women Authors to Read and Know.
South Africa’s complex history has given rise to a rich and restless literary landscape — one filled with writers grappling with identity, memory, belonging, healing and the messy middle between the stories we are given and the stories we discover for ourselves. In celebration of Women’s Day, here are three women writers whose work invites us to look more closely, question more deeply and see ourselves differently.
The Story Behind: Creative Writing in Cape Town
Creativity has a way of making sense of the paths that never seemed to make sense at the time. Looking back, every unexpected turn became part of a larger story—one that eventually led to the creation of Creative Writing in Cape Town.