"‘The Massacre of the Innocents. I didn’t even have a buyer, but I had to paint it.’ Bruegel drank deeply, then grinned. ‘Though maybe I should take King Filip’s Five Crosses off their standard.’" buff.ly/zAJvpor

A few ideas on chapter breaks here. @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social has good advice for writing multiple POVs too. Condensed rule of thumb is to bring readers out of one into something more neutral and then direct them into the other.
Jane Austen did it, it's

emmadarwin.substack.com/p/itchy-bite...

"If envy of apparent success can really mess with your creative process, confidence and judgement." So how do you process other writers’ success - in sales, visibility or literary esteem - and find your own creative balance and harmony?
On Writer’s Envy, Jealousy, Passion and Peace: buff.ly/M4Ftnc2

Review: Clearing the Air: Hannah Ritchie ***** - Now in paperback, gives excellent, clear answers to questions on the actions we can take to counter climate change without the doom-mongering tone of others. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2026/10/clea... #globalwarming #bookreview #climatechange

You’ve got the story sorted out, the writing is trundling along, but too often you come on a section that you or your beta-readers, or both, know is a bit - or very - meh.
Brand new on This Itch of Writing, seven of the best storytelling tools that don’t get talked about enough: buff.ly/8X6I0TZ

You’ve got the story sorted out, the writing is trundling along, but too often you come on a section that you or your beta-readers, or both, know is a bit - or very - meh.

Brand new on This Itch of Writing, seven of the best storytelling tools that don’t get talked about enough: buff.ly/8X6I0TZ

Brand new on This Itch of Writing, to help you think about your own drafting, editing or sorting out of the parts of your project that feedback has suggested are a bit meh, or worse!

Seven of the Best Storytelling Tools That Don’t Get Talked About Enough: buff.ly/8X6I0TZ

Rejection is a fact of the writing life, but it can feel like death.

The Itch of Writing Guide to Rejection can stock your first aid cupboard, treat the injury, and help you back to (writing) health and fitness:
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Rejection is a fact of the writing life, but it can feel like death.

The Itch of Writing Guide to Rejection can stock your first aid cupboard, treat the injury, and help you back to (writing) health and fitness: buff.ly/YtDwcYm

Do you plan and draft in chapters from the beginning? Find out where they go as you write? Let your editor put them in?
Chapter breaks are fundamental to the reader’s experience - which means they’re powerful tools and worth getting in the right place: buff.ly/ouoKjdv

Do you plan and draft in chapters from the beginning? Find out where they go as you write? Let your editor put them in?

Chapter breaks are fundamental to the reader’s experience - which means they’re powerful tools and worth getting in the right place: buff.ly/ouoKjdv

At @saloneurope.bsky.social Madrid, I ran a workshop where we played with anonymity.

The resulting writing was astounding and brave, so I am going to try and recreate it online. Join me?

'To Walk Invisible' Experiments in Anonymity | European Writers Sal share.google/7uZ636KVXgQn...

Whether you’ve got eight files all called ‘Final’, ten boxes of notes, or twenty carrier-bags of photocopies, it’s horribly easy for your work on a novel or creative non-fiction to sprawl into chaos. Itchy Bitesized 32 is about about how to tame your draft and get back in control:
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