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Fictionalise Two Elements to Find the Why

In Satori in Paris, Jack Kerouac said ‘…made up stories and romances about what would happen IF are…

Russ Litten
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Autofiction – Turn on the Light and Don’t be Scared

For anyone wanting to make sense of their own life through writing, you could do worse than to allow yourself the…

Russ Litten
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Mindfulness for Creative Writing

Practising mindfulness can help us to maintain a moment-by-moment, calm, present awareness of our thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. We can…

Elise Valmorbida
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Mindfully Observing the Sky

André Gide wrote: ‘The word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be necessitated by the…

Elise Valmorbida
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Get Under the Skin of Your Biographee

Freud once wrote that ‘Anyone who writes a biography is committed to lies, concealments, hypocrisy, flattery and even to hiding his…

Adelle Stripe
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Flip the Sans Serif

You have finally completed your final draft, having worked your manuscript through various stages like a sculptor rendering stone, polishing and…

Adelle Stripe
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Exercise: Bringing Memory to Life

Bring to the front of your mind a memory that you can’t let go of, or perhaps like me, there’s something…

Andrew McMillan
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The Poetry of Remembering

A conversation I was having with my parents recently led me to recall a friend I had for one of the…

Andrew McMillan
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Exercise: Making The Unreal Feel Real

Taking the example Salmon Rushdie gives of writing a flying carpet and imagining what needs to be considered in order to…

Lara Williams
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Making The Absurd Feel Real

One of my all-time favourite television series is the nineties supernatural show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. For those who…

Lara Williams
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Mixing Formats

Aspiring (or even published) writers often worry about mixing genres. We worry that it will make the novel or story collection…

Kirsty Logan
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Exercise: A Hint of the Horrors to Come

When writing a story intended to unnerve, frighten or thrill a reader, you generally won’t want to start with the horror…

Kirsty Logan
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Humour in Crime Fiction

There’s something wonderful about unrelenting bleakness. Anyone familiar with Cormack McCarthy’s ‘The Road’, John Edward Williams’ ‘Stoner’ or ‘Hard Rain Falling’…

Matt Wesolowski
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Unbalance the Awful

Think of something really horrible, something awful that could happen to someone, death, injury, disappearance but then come up with some…

Matt Wesolowski
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Relineate Your Work

For this exercise, you can either work with a poem you have already written, or write a new poem, and experiment…

Hannah Lowe
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Sense Breaks and Enjambement

As a rule of thumb, there are two main ways to lineate: firstly, by using a sense break,…

Hannah Lowe