A Writer's Process: Pam Keevil
/Would Hawkwood College, near Stroud have any online courses during the pandemic? Yes. One which immediately appealed was called Nature Writing
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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
Would Hawkwood College, near Stroud have any online courses during the pandemic? Yes. One which immediately appealed was called Nature Writing
Read MoreThe power of smell to evoke the world. If you can smell something, how do you find the words to convey that experience…?
Read MoreInspiration 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 MoreI was drawn to Bridget's prompt, the Margaret Atwood quotation about water, and I began to think of associations that were meaningful to me.
Read MoreAs a writer, I’ve often asked myself: how can I get the maximum aliveness into a product that sits flat on the page? It’s not an easy task.
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 MoreSarah was the winner of the Wild Words Summer Solstice Competition. You’ll find her winning entry below. But first, she talks about her creative process…
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 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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