Questions help you find out about your characters; lists of them can be found everywhere on the internet. Try these from NaNoWriMo (Googledoc). I first found out about question sheets in my Creative Writing Course. When I did a workshop
#IWSG | How are you today?
I ask ‘how are you today?’ because I realise I don’t communicate with my readers well enough. How are you in Lockdown? In these weird days of lockdown it’s easy to be wrapped up in our own concerns. You may
The List gets Longer – an update
The list gets longer and longer. That’s the list of things to do, of course. You’d think, while we’re on lockdown, I’d be crossing things off my list by now. Not a bit of it. I suppose part of it
P is for Pickpocket – 2013 #atozchallenge
Pickpocket – a 500 word piece written in 2012. I included it in my A to Z Challenge in 2013 when my theme was ‘stories’. This year I’m doing flashbacks from my previous seven A2Zs to honour the tenth anniversary
Spring will be a little late this year
This is a creative writing exercise on endings, using the phrase ‘Spring will be a little late this year’. This one is from my writing buddy, Judi Walsh. I was bowled over by the version she produced in class, but
Pickpocket
This is possibly my favourite piece done during the creative writing course. We picked a building in the city at random, the tutor gave us five objects and four characters, one of whom was to be our narrator, but all
Opposite
In this creative writing course homework we had to create the dialogue between people without them speaking (or at least the narrator hearing) any words. I think that was what it was – I was away at a meeting, travelling
Norwich – City of Literature
This is a creative writing exercise called ‘Mythologising Home’. However this one is from my writing buddy, Hilary Slade. Not only did Hilary write a great piece, it taught me more about the history of my nearest city in 500
Memories of Cliff
This was a homework exercise in our creative writing course when I’d missed class as I was ill. I just had the picture, and had to take it from there. “It’s very – austere,” said Jane, standing before the gravestone.
My 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
Yes, we all do them, and how many times are they the same as last year? Eat less and take more exercise seem to be my perennial ones. I ought to be a stick insect, but I’m not. This year
Having trouble with my homework
I’m struggling with the course as well, but this week’s homework for the Creative Writing Course is to take the name of an old boyfriend or similar, and write a 300 word piece of prose using only words made out