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Kieren Westwood

Kieren Westwood

Are writers on Medium forgetting the point?

This might be a controversial one.

4 min readOct 10, 2022

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Are writers on Medium forgetting the point?

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Kieren Westwood

How many words do you actually need to tell a story?

What are the essential components that a story cannot exist without?

4 min readSep 24, 2022

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How many words do you actually need to tell a story?

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Kieren Westwood

Word count goals can be poison for your creative writing.

There’s more to writing than hitting 1000 words a day.

5 min readSep 14, 2022

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Word count goals can be poison for your creative writing.

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Kieren Westwood

If you don’t know what to write fiction about, write about this.

A little while ago, I figured out what I want to write fiction about, maybe for the rest of my life. I want to tell you what that is, in…

5 min readSep 7, 2022

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If you don’t know what to write fiction about, write about this.

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The only quote about writing you’ll ever need.

There are a million quotes about writing out there, ranging from the straight-talking, to the completely unfathomable.

4 min readAug 20, 2022

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The only quote about writing you’ll ever need.

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The real ‘secret’ to fiction writing is more disappointing than you think.

I’ve been writing fiction for over ten years, and for the last few, I’ve been sharing my successes and failures with other writers online…

4 min readAug 12, 2022

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The real ‘secret’ to fiction writing is more disappointing than you think.

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Writers can STEAL this from Stranger Things.

Some cinematic writing techniques, to smooth over the cracks in your story.

5 min readAug 8, 2022

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Writers can STEAL this from Stranger Things.

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Writing Flash Fiction — finding your fire, for beginners.

In a world of sixty second videos designed to hypnotise us and doing a pretty stellar job of it, it can feel difficult to imagine…

5 min readMay 27, 2022

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Writing Flash Fiction — finding your fire, for beginners.

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Kieren Westwood

Kieren Westwood

Short and long fiction writer and YouTube content creator. I’ve been shortlisted for a number of short fiction prizes and had my stories published in journals.

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