Adventures in Smell: the Drowsy Scent of Velvet-Petaled Roses
/The power of smell to evoke the world. If you can smell something, how do you find the words to convey that experience…?
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The ‘Aha!’ moment of the reader is also the instant the writer is liberated. To get there, write as if experiencing something for the first time.
Use humour on the page – especially in situations that aren’t at all funny…
Move into close detail – of both inner and outer experience…
Once, in millennium not long before this one, I lived in a Forest…
Martha’s story began, in the way of many, as a glimmer in the back of my mind…
Winter Solstice Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray, with You Were Born in a Pandemic
The power of smell to evoke the world. If you can smell something, how do you find the words to convey that experience…?
Read MoreMore and more, I think Wild Words is about encouraging writers (including myself) to stop thinking of ourselves as ‘writers.’ It’s about supporting all of us word-crafters to throw out the old words, and speak from a place of freshness.
Read MoreHere are two beautiful examples of effective use of body sensations on the page. First, a few lines from the poetry of John Keats…
Read MorePlaying with words and images in the mountains of the Pyrenees. Peter Reid carries the camera. I carry the notebook. This is the first in series of images that records our cavorting, and creative collaboration.
Wild Words - Nature-inspired creative writing for wild writers and storytellers with Bridget Holding.
Wild Words is a call to express the wild in you. For anyone who has a yearning to express themselves. In conversation, spoken word, storytelling, songwriting, writing (poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction).
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We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.