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Forget plot, perspective and dialogue!

A level three student of mine, Jo Wells, made a simple, but valid comment in her reflective commentary recently. She had included a well-realised and imaginative scene in her assignment work, and wrote that this… came out of an exercise where a person becomes invisible… I never forget the benefit of exercises and free-write. Most […]

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Writing a five fingered exercise

When I was a small child, just starting school, my favorite moment in each day was the one, after we’d finished our tea, when my father went into the front room. He’d say to me, ‘don’t pull the curtains and don’t switch on the light.’ Then he’d sit at his piano in the last of the […]

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Fireside Reading

The clocks have gone back, the ghosts have flitted among us and returned to their thinly veiled otherworld, the Guys have gone up in a slightly anachronistic blaze of political glory and it’s time make a hot chocolate and curl up in the warm with a good book. Below is a list of some of […]

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