Crisis and Opportunity
/The 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…
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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 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 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 MoreSometime 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 MoreAnyone 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 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 MoreOn 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 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.