Writing is like weaving cloth then making a suit. Your first draft is the weave. You’ll end up with a huge, unwieldy thing. Then you start to cut it, and shape it, and add the button holes and pockets, the details that make it dazzling.
At the time, I’d been so scared that the phone had been shaking against my ear…
Structure is not the threat of you must fit into this shape. It is the invitation to devise the best form in which to engage the emotions of your reader in order to tell your story to maximum effect. It is the key to making someone laugh one moment – and weep the next.
Reflect on the last few months in the company of great characters .
Welcome to our fifth session together, creating poetry inspired by our homes and the objects in them.
Welcome to our fourth session together, creating poetry inspired by our homes and the objects in them.
Welcome to our third session together, exploring poetry inspired by the objects in our homes.
When you open up cinema in this way, it can be truly barrier-smashing. Film becomes a place where we celebrate life together as human beings involved in the eternal struggles of love and loss, life and death. We become one in our heartache and sorrow, as we do in our joy and triumph.
Welcome to our second session together, creating poetry inspired by our homes and the objects in them.
Three writing exercises follow. Please type your poems into the ‘comments’ section at the bottom of this page Session 1, writing exercise 1: List Poems Write your own list poem Choose from the following titles: My Kitchen Drawer My Bag The Bowl Now, simply begin to write a list of the things you see. Now, …
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