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Today's Daily Prompt from WordPress, Because the Night - Are you a night owl or are you the early bird? - and being on holiday over Easter - has made me realise that I'm most productive as a writer, and most cheerful as a human being, when I'm a slave to no routine or alarm… Continue reading Neither a lark nor an owl
It's been ten days of highs and lows since I took a new, part-time job with The Reader Organisation. Probably the lowest hours were the five and a half spent travelling up to Liverpool on three, packed, over-heated trains, last Sunday afternoon and early evening. The purpose of the journey was so I could spend… Continue reading Work/Life/Writing Balance and a Book at Breakfast
It seems that some people are already off on their travels for the summer. There have been tweets and blogposts from glamorous-sounding European cities and far-flung mountain ranges. I can hear the suitcases and rucksacks being dragged from the tops of wardrobes, the snap of elastic as last year's swimsuits are optimistically pinged into place… Continue reading Summer’s here and I’m still writing
I haven't posted for a while and here's what I've been up to... I put together 24 poems for a pamphlet competition and it took a lot of time, deciding which poems seemed good enough and which fitted the theme. Yes, a theme. I looked again at the poems I've written over the last four… Continue reading Writing themes, blogs and The Beatles.
I said I'd post again before the daffodils came out in my garden, I looked away for one moment and there they were, and looking pretty weary after two days of brutal March winds. We are experiencing a cold snap in the UK, no snow where I live, in the south west of England, but… Continue reading Read/Write South West and the joy of libraries
A post about another enjoyable and interesting poetry workshop devised and delivered by Carrie Etter, made possible by Hilda Sheehan and Bluegate Poets, at The Richard Jeffries Musuem, near Swindon. In The Page as Open Field we read and discussed six poems which use the page in a non-linear, unconventional way, with text not necessarily… Continue reading The Page as Open Field with Carrie Etter
2023/24 UPDATE New workshops in Bradford-on-Avon. Details here. ________________________________________________________________________ NEWSFLASH FREE WRITING WORKSHOPS (POETRY AND SHORT FICTION) SALISBURY LIBRARY You are invited to join writer Josephine Corcoran in these enjoyable workshops. In a supportive, friendly environment you will: • read and discuss a variety of poems and short stories to inspire your own work. •… Continue reading Writing Workshops and Events in and around Wiltshire (and beyond!)
Students began by reading their stories from last week when they'd placed one of their own fictional characters in a work setting they'd researched by interviewing other students. The writing was diverse and really interesting and included a man working in an all-female cleaning crew, a white Zimbabwean farmer advising on simulation exercises to a… Continue reading WordWeavers Session 4 – Writing Dialogue
A summary of what we did.... Last week, among other things, we talked about how a character's actions can reveal something, a mood or character trait, for example, to the reader. This week, continuing to think about what our characters do, we considered the world of work as a source of writing inspiration. The workplace… Continue reading Writing about Work – WordWeavers Session 3
For those who couldn't make it…. A summary of what we did. Confession: I stole the warm-up exercises from Vicki Feaver and Hugh Dunkerley who used them on a Creative Writing module at Chichester University in the early 1990s. First, a quick warm-up exercise: write, in two minutes, a list of possible uses for this object Then, write… Continue reading WordWeavers at Trowbridge Museum – First Session
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