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Task Seven: Rediscovering Your Child’s Eye
I have always admired writers who use a lot of description. I’ll never forget being fifteen and studying the opening to Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. It’s so rich right from the off. We had to write...
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Task Ten: Rewriting Clichés
Well, this is one a lot of writers I’ve read are guilty of. We use well-known clichés because it’s easy. So, today’s task is nice and simple; find some other ways of making a comparison that doesn’t...
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Task Thirteen: Turning Stains into Stories
So, this week it’s about finding a pattern in a seemingly random jumble of things. It could be the shape of a stain on a jumper, or the assortment of people standing in a queue. It’s about taking an...
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So many books, so little time
I arrive home to find two small parcels waiting for me in the hall. One is brown cardboard, thin but sturdy. The other white, puffy and heavier. Eagerly, I drop my bag and coat onto the cream carpet...
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Feeling like I’ve grown
I managed another writing session today. There’s something about the Sun that seems to make me more productive! I’m sure I’m not the only one, but when that silky sunshine is raining down I feel like I...
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