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Writers Online Substack · Jul 22, 2026

The building blocks of creative writing - Sound

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Learn how to make music with your writing, as author and tutor Ian Ayris explores the sound of the spaces between words

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We finished the last issue completing our look at the Building Block of Character.

And then we heard a sound . . .

A beat throbbing.

A rhythm pounding.

From nowhere and from everywhere.

A melody floating softly, hovering above it all.

We search among the Building Blocks and cannot find the source of these sounds. We realise it is not the Building Blocks generating this noise. The pounding rhythm is coming from the ground beneath our feet and the melody is in the very air we breathe.

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