Birthing A Project
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There’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.
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Summer Focus, and Punctuation
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It doesn’t half focus one’s mind, to be sleeping and writing a novel in the woodland …
Read MoreOn Gestures, and a Sense of Direction
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I hope that your imagination, your passion to tell the story, is providing you with direction, and nourishment in these unclear times…
Read MoreAnger, 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.
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 MoreUsing The Senses
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The Wild Words on the page use a range of sensory data: colours, smells, tastes, sounds, textures.
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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.