Touching Into Bodily Sensations
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Here are two beautiful examples of effective use of body sensations on the page. First, a few lines from the poetry of John Keats…
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Using The Senses
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The Wild Words on the page use a range of sensory data: colours, smells, tastes, sounds, textures.
Read MorePreparing For The Arrival Of The BIG IDEA
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The wild words on the page are a wonderful unfolding mystery. Information is revealed, according to what will impact the listener or reader most powerfully.
Read MorePoint of View
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Wild words are tense and dramatic. This tension is partly constructed by the storyteller’s choices around point-of-view.
Read MoreA Storyteller's Process and Competition Runner Up: Pauline Brown
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My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2014, the same year that the Loch Leven Heritage Trail opened…
Read MoreThe Way People Speak
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The way people speak. Even if your words are passing directly from your internal world on to the page, you'll still have heard them in your head first.
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Haiku and Tweets: the shorter stuff
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To write or tell words that live, breathe and jump off the page, we first have to discover, or re-discover, an attitude of wonder and revelation in relation to the world around us.
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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.