A Writer's Process: Hetta S. Lyon - Competition Runner-up
/Inspiration rarely strikes me when I am sitting at my desk, looking at a cursor blink at me from the whiteness of a blank document.
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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
Inspiration rarely strikes me when I am sitting at my desk, looking at a cursor blink at me from the whiteness of a blank document.
Read MoreThe word emotion comes from the latin ex-movere meaning to move out into. The purpose of emotion is not just to feel…
Read MoreFor 2021, how about we give a load of stuff up? Let’s bring THE END to the things that aren’t serving our writing. It’s easier to do it together, don’t you think?
Read MoreThe response to the Wild Words Competition for this half year (it closed last night), has been amazing, but the high number of entries perhaps not surprising…
Read MoreThere’s the birth of the words, but then it still has to grow and develop, and find independence, and its tribe, and where to live.
Read MoreIt doesn’t half focus one’s mind, to be sleeping and writing a novel in the woodland …
Read MoreI hope that your imagination, your passion to tell the story, is providing you with direction, and nourishment in these unclear times…
Read MoreOk, let’s start with the sensible guidelines about putting anger effectively on to the page. And then we’ll see why wild writing means throwing those rules out, at least partially.
Read MoreWild 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.