Our thanks to Moira Forsyth for allowing us to share these posts with our readers. They were formerly published on the Sandstone Press website.

Moira writes, ‘although originally developed for novelists and, to a lesser extent, writers of full length narrative non-fiction, much of the guidance is also relevant for writers of short stories and short non-fiction pieces. Remember – it is guidance only and not a list of rules!’

The second post is Making the Beginning Strong: looking again at how you began and whether it still fits – and works.