MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the New Year – describing the homes of the rich and famous
Want to write about the seriously wealthy but when you look out the window for inspiration the view is dominated by grey pebbledash and black bin liners spilling a week … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) NICOLA MORGAN
Creative people are creative not because of where they get their ideas but because of what they do with them. That’s what creativity is; anyone can have an idea but a … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the Christmas holidays – writing with your senses
I wrote about using smell in description a couple of weeks ago and I make no apologies for returning to it because it can create a whole world in a … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) ELEANOR ROOSEVLT
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences Eleanor Roosevelt
Watch an Irish Winter Solstice
Tomorrow Friday 21st December 2012 at 8.45am (GMT) you can watch the dawn sunshine of the shortest day of the year light up the interior of an ancient temple on … Continue reading
Writing for Children
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or in terms … Continue reading
Did you know all about the Benjamin means all about the money?
…because Benjamin Franklin appears on the $100 bill. Source: Pointless quiz (watching daytime TV = research). Dead Presidents = money. Source: my film savvy, street wise son
Bad Sex, Good Sex…
Nancy Huston has won the 2012 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for Infrared, published by Atlantic Books. Infrared tells the story of Rena who is a photographer with a taste … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week – making description stand out for all the right reasons
Good description never just tells you what something is like. It also does something else. Very often the something else adds to the emotional atmosphere of the story or helps … Continue reading
Write like an American
When things go bad, when the fears that disturb your sleep become waking reality, words are clumsy and awkward. They can’t possibly express the depth and breath of what you … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
It is well known that a woman can be in two places at once, at her desk and her washing machine… Sylvia Townsend Warner
Enter a poetry competition to support an arts organisation
I’ve just heard that the Torriano Poetry Competition is low on entries and that the Torriano Meeting House is in real need of the funds the competition generates. It is … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 