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Placing poetry in natural spaces

Your exercise is to write and place your poem somewhere that will surprise and delight the reader, be that a child,…

David Morley
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New environments for poetry

Many things can be said in literature using words, but they can also be said using other arts, or by means…

David Morley
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Finding and Keeping the Language of Nature

Your exercise is to take a natural history field-guide and locate a poem within it. Write it out as your own,…

David Morley
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The Magic of Field Guides

As a field ecologist I get a buzz from science’s terminology and the names of species – especially plants and insects. …

David Morley
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Developing a shooting script for your novel

You have an overall structure for your novel. You have already discovered your characters, key plot points, settings, themes. You have…

Catherine O’Flynn
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Opening out your novel

You have an initial idea for your novel – a scene or a character that won’t go away. You have focused…

Catherine O’Flynn
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How the lines can find their place

When I am editing my poems I am often trying to find ways for the poem to reveal itself to me…

Stevie Ronnie
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First and last line

When drafting your poems it is worth giving special consideration to the first and last lines as they function differently to…

Stevie Ronnie
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Make the words work harder

Arm yourself with an action scene. That is, a block of writing that describes something physical going on. It can be…

Cynan Jones
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Write about things you don’t care about

Generally, when you sit down to write seriously you sit down to write something you really care about. This is a…

Cynan Jones
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Finding the right line

Write for three minutes without stopping, without thinking – beginning with the words ‘The moment I realised…’. Don’t worry about the…

John Greening
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Switching to a different line

Unless you are W.B.Yeats, you are unlikely to draft your poems in prose, but it’s quite possible that you have fallen…

John Greening
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Before you begin – what’s it all about?

It’s a simple tip but so often overlooked by new writers in all creative and fiction genres – and it is…

Mavis Cheek
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Filling in the gaps

Take three seemingly unrelated events. It’s best to use ones which have emotional reverberations like, say, a young girl lighting a…

Tobias Jones
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Mind the gaps

In all forms of writing it’s important never to give the reader four, but to give them two plus two. One…

Tobias Jones
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Free writing

Perennially useful.  Set a timer for 5 or 10 minutes. Start the timer and start writing, as fast as you can….

Ros Barber