MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week: finding your own words
Edna O’ Brien writes prose as if she were a poet. It seems as though each word is carefully selected, chosen not just for its meaning but also for its … Continue reading
You have until midnight…
…to donate to the first print edition of the highly acclaimed creative writing and arts magazine WHAT THE DICKENS. If you become a backer you will get your own copy … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) PHILIP PULLMAN
If we all read aloud every day the world would be a better place. Philip Pullman
15 literary genres (some you’ve heard of; some you haven’t and some that will surprise you…)
Robert McCrum in Monday’s Guardian published a list of 15 different modern literary genres. Not sure how far he was having fun, but even so some surprising omissions. 1. Lit … Continue reading
Happy World Hello Day
No, I didn’t know it existed either but it began in 1973 to promote peace between Egypt and Israel. There are now 180 countries involved in the attempt to foster … Continue reading
Beautiful Blogger – that’s me! Seven things you didn’t know you wanted to know
Vikki over at The View Outside nominated me for a Beautiful Blogger Award which was really nice of her – thank you so much! I’m new to all this but … Continue reading
DID YOU KNOW…
…that the creative industries in the UK contribute just 1% less to the gross national income than the financial sector. Source: Andrew Marr Radio Four Monday November 19th 2012
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week: using a writer’s notebook to create thumbnail sketches
First read this poem by the Polish poet Wislawa Szymorska THE ONE TWENTY PUB The bomb is primed to go off at one twenty. A time-check: one sixteen. There’s still … Continue reading
The book I really want to read: London Irish Fictions
Tony Murray has just brought out the first book-length study of the literature of the Irish in London. In LONDON IRISH FICTIONS he looks at over 30 Irish novels, short … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) STEPHEN KING
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the … Continue reading
The difference between fiction and non fiction
Over on The View Outside Vikki’s written about a recent research session at the Faber Academy where novelist and Guardian writer Susie Steiner gave a pretty good definition of the … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week TURNING FACT INTO FICTION
Anyone who survives beyond the age of twelve has enough fictional material for the rest of her life. Flannery O’Connor Take an event from your own or a family member’s … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) STEPHEN COVEY
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing Stephen Covey
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 