Writing on the Map – how we write about places
Posted: 09/10/18 09:12 | 2 Comments
Maps, like poems, can mean different things to different people.
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Show Don’t Tell or Show and Tell?
Posted: 01/10/18 09:31 | 1 Comments
If I am ever worried about showing vs telling in my own work, I tend to look at the situation from the perspective of the reader. A reader told something will go away knowing it. A reader shown something will go away having interpreted it and worked it out for themselves.
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Learning from the experts; David Mitchell
Posted: 26/09/18 09:22 | 2 Comments
Always keep an eye open for advice from pre-eminent writers like David Mitchell. They often have hit on ideas, devices and techniques that helped them get from an initial thought to an acclaimed book. By tapping into their ingenuity, you can only further your own writing.
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Poetry and landscapes: rivers
Posted: 18/09/18 09:16 | 0 Comments
I hope this discussion inspires you to think more deeply about how you could write about particular landscapes (or waterscapes) and stimulates you to research a really interesting contemporary writer and her ideas about poetry and places.
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Writing about food
Posted: 14/09/18 09:10 | 7 Comments
It’s not surprising that writers often bring food into their stories and poems: the way that a character relates to food can be a shorthand for letting the reader know something significant about their personality or their relationships.
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Poetry and landscapes: gardens
Posted: 13/09/18 09:25 | 9 Comments
In the end, it’s not just about flowers.
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The Hogarth Project: Re-examining The Bard.
Posted: 02/09/18 09:51 | 2 Comments
In 2012, it was relaunched by Penguin, with a similar but specific mission; to publish reinterpretations of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern novel form. Some of the most acclaimed and popular novelists of our time have been commissioned to write for the project and so far, six have delivered – Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Tracy Chevalier, Edward St Aubyn, Anne Tyler and Margaret Atwood.
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Mood boards / visual representations of stories. Part 2
Posted: 29/08/18 09:06 | 3 Comments
All of which leads me to conclude that the artistic art is a desire to make real the imaginary. And so by necessity employing as wide a range of mediums as possible takes us closer to that elusive goal.
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What is Ecopoetry and why write it?
Posted: 21/08/18 09:55 | 14 Comments
Eco-poetry, then, in the sense I’m talking about, takes the human and the natural world as undeniably connected and does not prioritise one over the other. The human and natural worlds are not exclusive of one another, and the natural is not something to be ‘conquered.’ Eco-poetry does not centre on a human viewpoint; it is inclusive of plant, animal, landscape. It can make us look at the experiences of the life we share the planet with in a completely new way.
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Flash poetry
Posted: 20/08/18 09:26 | 1 Comments
Content-wise flash fiction, however short, will have a narrative arc while flash poetry will catch a moment with maybe implied narrative. In fact, flash poetry will have more in common with a photograph than with a piece of prose.
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