SAFARI FRIDAY searching the web for writers and readers WRITING CALENDAR
Safari = Swahili for long journey.I am on the look out for anything accessible from a keyboard that educates, entertains, intrigues, raises a smile. Anything that helps a reader get … Continue reading
Q is for QUEM QUAERITIS (oh, yes…!)
QUEM QUAERITIS is a question: Whom do you seek? It was asked by the angel guarding the tomb where Christ’s body had been buried, when the three Marys came visiting … Continue reading
P is for PERSON-IFICATION
Personification gives objects or abstract concepts a human voice or quality. We all use it in everyday speech: time races by, shoes kill us, the wind moans. Advertisers use it, … Continue reading
O is for Ode (part II)
I tried to find a video of Lucille Clifton reading her poem ODE TO MY HIPS when I posted my ‘O’ contribution to the international A-Z Challenge earlier today and … Continue reading
O is for ODE
The classic Greek ode was a serious literary form that publicly celebrated the achievements of a noteworthy individual – an Olympic athlete for example. Much later the English Romantic poets … Continue reading
N is for NAMING FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
FIVE RULES YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BREAK 1) If your character is based on a flesh and blood person make sure the name is radically different to their real life one. … Continue reading
M is for MEMORY AND MEMOIR: HOW TO FORGET
MEMORY, according to the philosopher Suzanne Langer, should not be thought of as a noun – a storehouse or recording machine – but as a verb, an activity that makes … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE BECAUSE IT’S A GOOD WAY TO START THE WEEK long and short sentences
I am away from my desk this week so I thought I would share again an exercise I posted last September which feels like a very long time ago. Varying … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes) ISAAC ASIMOV
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, … Continue reading
L is for LETTER WRITING
Using letter writing as a narrative structure has a long history. Here are some examples…. Dangerous Liaisons written by Pierre de Laclos just before the French Revolution. Most of it … Continue reading
International Poetry Competition
This is a major competition run by Lightship Literary organisation with a major first prize: £1,000 / US$1600 The winner and nine runners-up will also be published in Lightship Anthology … Continue reading
Written the first chapter of the novel you always wanted to write?
First prize in this novel writing competition is the stuff dreams are made of: feedback from an acclaimed literary author, a top literary agent and a commissioning editor as you write the rest … Continue reading
K is for KENNING
I wasn’t familiar with this word before (except in its Scots form to ken, to know). It has its origins in the Old Norse phrase kenna eitt við, which means … Continue reading
SAFARI FRIDAY searching the web for writers and readers THIN READS
This is a very new website – just five days old – and based in America so not relevant to everyone, but I wanted to include it in SAFARI FRIDAY … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 