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Forthcoming Workshop: ‘Managing the Inner Critic’
(online, via Zoom, Saturday 18th May, 15.00-17.30 UK time, or UTC+1) In May, I'm re-running my workshop 'Managing the Inner Critic': a workshop I've taught for universities, at festivals, and for organisations in the creative industries. The workshop is aimed at...
Writing Prompts: Going Further with Character – via William James’s Theory of Identity…
New prompts (at the link below) for developing your fiction writing projects... This time giving you ideas for how to develop a fictional character you've begun writing about, drawing upon the 19th century psychologist William James's theories of identity... Something...
Writing Prompts: Finding Resonance in Objects and Belongings (via a story by Sara Hills)…
New prompts (at the link below) for your current writing projects... Once more exploring how we use physical environments in our writing, this time by examining a microfiction by Sara Hills. What might we learn from how Hills uses the objects in a room to say...
What Does Golf Have To Do with the Writing Life?
Well, the first weekend of 2024 has arrived and I'm getting around - a few weeks "late" perhaps - to posting a writing news update on this personal blog. The main thing I want to confess is that I'm feeling fortunate: fortunate to have been able to persist with this...
Writing Prompts: Going Further with Landscape & Location (via the Poetry of Michael Longley)…
New ideas here for re-invigorating your current writing projects... again exploring how we can connect more deeply with locations and landscapes, this time taking a fresh approach by exploring the work of Michael Longley. These monthly writing prompts are drawn from a...
Writing Prompts: Going Further with Landscape & Location…
New writing exercises available here - exploring how we can connect more deeply with the locations and landscapes we use in our writing... These monthly writing prompts are drawn from a website about the novella-in-flash, but you can channel these prompts towards all...
Writing Prompts: Landscape & Location as a Dynamic Story-Engine
New writing prompts here - about using locations and settings as a dynamic engine for narrative... Although these monthly writing prompts are drawn from a website devoted to the novella-in-flash, I invite readers here to harness these prompts flexibly for all kinds of...
Story Writing Prompt: Getting Your Characters Out of Their Comfort Zone
Following on from this weekend's World Cup football drama, which took everyone out of their comfort zones, I'm sharing some story writing prompts here from the novella-in-flash.com blog - different ways to get your story characters out of their comfort zones… without...
Forthcoming Workshop: ‘Managing the Inner Critic’
(online, via Zoom, Saturday 29th July, 15.00-17.30 UK time) A quick announcement that I'm offering a new workshop in a couple of weeks' time: it's aimed at writers, artists, musicians, freelancers, facilitators - and creative practitioners of all kinds: 'Managing the...