Anger, and the Roar of the Wild Writer
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Ok, 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.
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A Writer's Process: Kathryn Aalto
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Sometime what we sense might be barriers in life can, in time, prove to be gateways into the unexpected. This was the case for me 2007 when I stepped, reluctantly, into the life of an expat…
Read MoreFree Words In A Time of Confinement
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Anyone else feeling the urge to break out? For many of us, these unusual times are intensifying issues that we’re always dealing with as human beings - how to live with a sense of freedom rather than confinement, connectedness rather than apartness.
Read MoreRe-Wilding the Writer
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More 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 MoreYou Will Come Back- on procrastination
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On a frosty February morning in the mountains of the Pyrenees, I wanted to share with you my response to a question about procrastination that a student asked this week.
Read MoreThe Three Act Structure
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The listener or reader waits excitedly for the story. Unconsciously, they know something of what to expect.. There will be a beginning, middle, and end. There will be an arc…
Read MoreDetail and Distance
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In wild words moments of high tension, drama and emotion are described in detail, in order to give the listener or reader the opportunity to really feel.
Read MorePreparation or Spontaneity?
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There can be a myth amongst storytellers, especially novel writers, that if you are a storyteller worth your salt, you will be able to sit down and, unplanned, just write the next War and Peace.
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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.