Welcome to The Content Castle!
Wordsmiths unite in a colourful island home complete with inspiring workplaces, restful nooks and sustainable friendships. Call it the food for thought, tropical, time and space continuum for an eclectic mix of writers, happily sharing their craft on the world stage of cyberdome.
Rolling applications accepted for residency at the Content Castle here in beautiful Koh Samui, where word power and wanderlust collide.
SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME
Perfect your writing, polish your editing, and refine your grammar acumen with our three-month, intensive writer’s boot camp designed to teach you the skills to master the production of SEO rich content while building a professional portfolio, bringing you one step closer to realizing your dream of becoming an independent, nomadic writer.
WHO AND HOW TO APPLY
Whether you are an aspiring writer or come with a catalogue of experience, you are welcome to apply. We are looking for candidates with a strong passion for writing. If you have always fancied yourself something of a wordsmith we want to hear from you!
All we need is your name and email address to get this adventure started…
What our past residents have to say…
Journal
Boost Your Creative Writing By Thinking in Headlines
Writers–think outside the box. Take a stance and explore different positions with different headline ideas. Be bold, opinionated and unique. Lure your readers in with interesting and creative topics inspired by headlines.
5 Apps To Help You Plan That Novel
It has been said that everyone has a novel inside them and a lot of us have, at some point in our lives, courted the idea of putting pen to paper and creating a bestseller. As those of us who have ever tried will testify though, writing a novel is difficult. Perhaps this is why we find stories of authors fighting against the odds to follow their dreams so inspiring, such as that of Helen Keller who was left both deaf and blind after an illness in infancy and yet completed her first autobiography by the age of 22. Or that of Charles Dickens who fought to escape a life of drudgery working in a shoe-blacking factory at the age of 12 to bring us characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist.
Writing the Hook
By Brittany Kulick A reader has clicked into your article… now what? The hook or introduction is the most crucial part of any article. If it’s not compelling and well-written, there’s no chance the reader will stick around for the remainder of the article. In fact, a...
How to Write Like an Expert on a New Topic
The unknown is called the unknown for a reason and getting fixated on finding the perfect topic, the hidden story that will blow the world’s eyes wide open is a nearly impossible task. It is only when you journey down the rabbit hole that you uncover what lies beneath; it is only after you dig that you reveal whatever magic may be waiting for you.