Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: picture prompt
Use this photograph any way you want but you might like to start with this line. I knew Malcolm a long time before I fully realised what kind of man … Continue reading
Worst one line synopsis
Can you better this one: a rich man with issues falls for innocent young lass Can’t guess? Presume it is something you haven’t read (and never will read). No, it’s … Continue reading
Mums and magic, Dogs and super hero Dads feature in national writing competition for children
This is the third year of BBC Radio Two’s writing competition for children aged 13 and under. It’s called 500 Words and over 90,000 entries were received. 90,000! Lexicographers at … Continue reading
Writing from Nature – a six week course in the Sussex countryside
photo credit: ecstaticist via photopin cc Come and join me on a six week nature writing course that I am running in Foredown Tower, a unique location on the edge … Continue reading
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: getting in the mood to write FLASH FICTION
None of these exercise ideas might actually produce a flash fiction story you would want to call your own, but I hope they get you into the mood for writing … Continue reading
A Very British Blog Post (actually a Very Brighton Blog Post with a London Irish flavour)
Vikki Thompson over at The View Outside has invited readers to take part in this blog hop. You can read her post HERE which gives a very different take on … Continue reading
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week — WHAT IF….
Journalists ask who, what, why, where and when. Fiction writers ask WHAT IF. This is a good WHAT IF for a Monday and it could turn into almost anything: a … Continue reading
Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week — Dramatic Irony
The term dramatic irony is used to describe a story where the reader or audience knows something that the characters don’t and that knowledge has a powerful effect on what … Continue reading
MONDAY creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: a happy exercise
It’s been a grim, grey winter. The longest I remember but today is a holiday in the UK and the sun is shining (two things that rarely coincide) so this … Continue reading
Creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week. Find your place.
> Apologies I lost a day this week – and for that reason the Monday exercise is now on Tuesday but hey ho! it’s here…and I hope you enjoy it. … Continue reading
Monday CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week A SEPIA ROMANCE
Ten lines of dialogue that begins with an argument and ends with a kiss…
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
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week — 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
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week — Banishing Cliches
‘The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.’ … Continue reading
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