Squishy McFluff author Pip Jones with the best advice on writing stories that rhyme – and the golden rule is never, ever sacrifice a story for a rhyme!

From that killer first line to dealing with writer’s block, author Chris D’Lacey shares his top writing tips

Haven’t yet entered the Jacqueline Wilson Creative Writing prize? You have just 35 days to go! Here’s Jacky talking to the amazing Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort author and illustrator Lauren Child to give you some more tips about how to write your story

Jacqueline Wilson is offering an amazing prize in her creative writing competition for seven to 12 year olds - have your story published in one of her books! She explains why you should enter and offers her top story writing tips

From killing off characters to inventive putdowns to adding a ghost, Deborah Patterson celebrates Shakespeare Week with tips on how to channel your inner Bard in 10 easy steps

After winning a Scottish children’s book award with his mystery novel The Nowhere Emporium, Ross Mackenzie his mystery writing secrets

Mick Inkpen, Kipper creator and ReadingZone World Book Day picture book competition judge, shares his advice on thinking up, writing and drawing an amazing picture book

From red herrings to maguffins to double identities, Knightley and Son author Rohan Gavin shares the secrets of writing great detective stories

Anna Caltabiano self-published her first novel at the age of 14. Now with three published novels under her belt, the 18-year-old author and student shares some marvellous writing tips for teenage writers and beyond

Author Angie Sage doesn’t really believe in writer’s block except as a roundabout way of admitting you’ve run out of ideas. Here are her top tips on how to get started again!

Joe Craig, author of the Jimmy Coates spy series and judge of the National Short Story Week young writer competition, has some tips for budding young writers on avoiding common creative writing pitfalls and how to stand out from the crowd

Welcome to NaNoWriMo! MG Leonard (who wrote her first book Beetle Boy in six months, one hour a day) has tips on how to do it. And it starts with writing EVERY SINGLE DAY

Want to write a really scary story? Follow these top tips from Matt Ralphs, author of Fire Girl, and learn how to create the killer combination to make your readers shiver with fear

Sitting on buses, listening to slang or remembering back to their own adolescence, authors including Louise O’Neill, Patrick Ness, Annabel Pitcher, Melvin Burgess, Benjamin Zephaniah tell all

Poet Roger Stevens reveals his techniques for writing a poem on a specific topic

CJ Daugherty’s new novel The Secret Fire, is co-written with her penpal Carina Rozenfeld, and it’s about pen pals too! Here’s how they made it work

The award-winning playwright, poet and novelist shares how to create multicultural characters that are well rounded but not cliched

The author of All The Bright Places put together this writing advice with her mum, who always wrote even in the saddest times, to offer inspiration for every occasion and so here presents… A Niven guide to writing

The award-winning of author of teen thrillers such as Girl, Missing and All My Secrets shares her suspenseful plotting secrets