This piece is one of three assessments for a Spring School course I completed through University of Tasmania. I had to write something in response to the prompt "Holiday" and present it creatively. For June Your pansies smile gaily in your garden Not knowing their fate Already the dandelions are growing tall Eclipsing … [Read more...]
What writers need
The creative writing project I've been involved with over the past four months, The Write Road, drew to a close last week. I can't tell you how proud I felt as I watched the 17 grade 5 and 6 students I had mentored during these months pore over the pages of the anthology their work was published in, along with the work of 30 others … [Read more...]
Creative writing exercise: What could Alder be thinking?
Fiction is something I'm still learning how to write. Actually I'm certain it will be something I am learning to do for my entire life. With this in mind, I'm currently studying The Open University's Start Writing Fiction course. I'm way behind, as I am prone to do because I take on too much stuff, but today I wrote a piece prompted by … [Read more...]
Rise and Fall
Writing for pleasure is something I don't often indulge in, but when I do it always makes my heart sing. For the past few weeks I've been mentoring a group of 16 young writers participating in The Write Road program. In their first week they were presented with this photographic writing prompt entitled "Daybreak", and then asked to write … [Read more...]
My friend, the muse
Every scene tells a story, nay, myriad stories. And behind every story is a spark of inspiration. That spark grows to a kernel of something. Then the kernel builds to a ball of magic, with words swirling through my mind and forming trails of sentences on the page. The spark might ignite a distant memory; my subconscious searching past … [Read more...]
