Right, get writing!

Did I forget to mention that there's money to be won? The Transition Tales Writing Competition, for example, is offering £750 in prizes for a story about Cambridge in 2050, while the Young Writers' Mini Sagas Competition is offering up to £1750. And there's the simple pleasure of writing well. And the added benefit of possibly seeing your work in print. And the joy of breaking rules like not starting sentences with 'and'.

If you want some advice about how to write well you could do worse than try out these pages from The Guardian newspaper or these ones setting out the Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.