MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week HUMOUR
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer and journalist who disappeared in 1913 when reporting on the Mexican Rebellion. Famous for his sardonic wit, probably his most famous work is THE … Continue reading
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: a photograph to fire the imagination.
The blue man wakes up and says… 250 words containing a birth, a death and a small flower
USING MUSIC AS A PLOT DEVICE – extract from a creative writing exercise in Back to Creative Writing School
James Joyce’s The Dead has been called by some critics the best short story ever written. Indeed when I was studying for a Masters in Creative Writing a tutor apologised … Continue reading
Figures of Speech cane be dangerous
One of my all time favourite youtube videos will help sort out a synedoche from a similie.
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE writing a synopsis
The agent Carole Blake, author of From Pitch to Publication says that any story can be boiled down to: What does the main character want, and what’s stopping them from … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week DIALOGUE: ACCENTS
One of the first things you need to consider when writing dialogue is the vocabulary and the way it is expressed. Does it fit the age, education and experience of … Continue reading
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week TITLES
Titles are hard to get right. The easy option is to go for a label – Sunday Afternoon, The Dream, A Walk in the Park and there are excellent precedents. … Continue reading
Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week
What happened here on a damp February morning? And what did it have to do with a stolen handbag and the retired doctor who owns the building on the left? … Continue reading
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
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
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
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week – first person point of view
This exercise is about exploring first person point of view (I said, I thought…etc). You can work with any fairy tale you know well, but just in case your mind … Continue reading
Editing Your NaNoWriMo Novel THREE BITE SIZE GUIDES TO EDITING AND REVISING THE FIRST DRAFTpart 3
PART THREE (You can see parts One and Two as guest posts at The View Outside) Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. … Continue reading
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