Creative Writing Masterclass 1: Ideas & Inspiration

Acclaimed Scottish writer Keith Gray begins a 5-part series on writing your first story, from initial ideas to final draft. All the information is at www.scottishbooktrust.com.

Keith Gray's latest novel is Ostrich Boys.

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• inspiration
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• tutorial

[wildcard126]

can u give me copies of your stories? or how much would they cost?

[scottishbooktrust]

@wildcard126 You can get info on all of Keith's books, along with links to buy them, on the Scottish Book Trust website - scottishbooktrust [dot] com [slash] contacts [slash] keith-gray

[architectus777]

Nice. Hey, my channel has many free lessons in writing, from plotting, to show and tell, to creating suspense. Just click my nick, and then browse my playlist. People say they've learned more from my videos than they ever did taking writing courses. That makes me feel good.

Feel free to post a video response of one of your videos.

[Deizelcore]

@ArTiziesWorld

This is not Keith's channel, he won't ever see this comment.

[Seb7795]

@ArTiziesWorld Hope you do well.

[ArTiziesWorld]

@Seb7795 Thankyou ive done the eam hopefully passed But thankyou anyway :)

[Seb7795]

@ArTiziesWorld Teachers like to be kind, you have to understand that English is generally the easiest subject on the curriculum, and creative writing is the easiest branch of English. HOWEVER, you have the biggest difficulty of fiction writing out of the way, an actual plot? Is your plot original? Do you read it and think that it's something you would buy and stay up all night reading? Expand, edit, rewrite, expand, edit, give it to those you trust to read. Edit, re-wright. Good luck.

[bluesun100]

Thank you!

[ArTiziesWorld]

im 14 and doing my Creative Writing exam and my teacher said its A* Work and i should get it published what would you say ?

[camelot886]

I would probably be offended if somebody I didn't know wrote something in their notebook about me.

[morguloth]

Blatant plug: morguloth.blogspot.com

[zhangyunjie2046]

this video inspired me

[GribbleGrunger]

Hi there Keith. I haven't got a clue whether you will read this but I remember you when you was an egg (in a writing sense) Six Bullets and all :) It's Paul, the quitter here, still scribbling occasionally but dreams more ethereal as ever. Nice to see your face again after all these years, it takes me back, and that's a blessing. I can see you have done extremely well for yourself and I can't be any more pleased.