Archive - This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin

You Know Your Inner Critic, But What's an Inner Fan?

And why and how does cultivating yours really help your writing?

Jun 27 •

Q&A: Herding Subplots, Rewriting in Third and Knowing When You're Finished

The pick of the Itch of Writing Ask Me Anything Chats

Jun 20 •

Leaning Into the Not-Knowing

Why Keats was right about the inarticulate, the doubtful and the a-rational space of writing, and how you can work with it

Jun 13 •

Itchy Bitesized 39: Ten Things About Showing and Telling

Why you need both, and how to develop your skills

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Point-of-View: An Itch of Writing Guide

How it works, why it matters, and how to use point-of-view to your story's best advantage

May 30 •

Itchy Bitesized 38: Nine Thoughts About Description

Plus six useful editing questions to stress-test your descriptions

May 23 •

Colm Tóibín: "It is not our job to like or dislike characters in fiction...

... or make judgments about their worth, or learn from them how to live." So what is our job in reading and writing characters?

May 16 •

Itchy Bitesized 37: Six Things About Sentences

And how to develop your sentence-wrangling skills

May 9 •

When Are Your Words A Genuine Turkey?

And when are they actually a canary in the coal-mine?

May 2 •

April 2025

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