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Task Five: Things to be Happy About
A pretty self-explanatory title, this one. And I think it has more relevance to creative writing than you might first think. Being able to think of using your senses to evoke an emotion is an important...
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Task Six: No time to Write?
Ah. Now this task is right up my street. If you follow my blog you’ll know that I believe one of the biggest barriers to my published dream is Time. As a full-time teacher I spend most of my week...
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Task Seven: Rediscovering Your Child’s Eye
I have always admired writers who use a lot of description. I’ll never forget being fifteen and studying the opening to Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. It’s so rich right from the off. We had to write...
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Task Eight: Turning Points
So, another chance to flex the fiction muscles today with a short piece about a turning point. We all know about turning points because we have them all the time in real life. As a writer it’s good...
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Task Nine: If Fate Hands You a Rattlesnake, Make a Handbag
Or making the best of a situation. Books about characters who take what life gives them and make something good from it are compelling reading, not least because we’ve all had times like that. You know...
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Task Ten: Rewriting Clichés
Well, this is one a lot of writers I’ve read are guilty of. We use well-known clichés because it’s easy. So, today’s task is nice and simple; find some other ways of making a comparison that doesn’t...
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Task Eleven: One Minute – One Sentence
Okay, I admit it, I’m currently doing exactly what Margret Geraghty’s book suggests you don’t do to improve your writing skills – I’m sitting down at the weekend and having several hours of writing...
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Task Twelve: The Name of the Game
Gosh, it’s really raining today. Not just a little light drizzle, but a proper, full-on bucketing down. The only thing that’s lacking is a thunderstorm. What’s the point of it raining so beautifully if...
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Task Thirteen: Turning Stains into Stories
So, this week it’s about finding a pattern in a seemingly random jumble of things. It could be the shape of a stain on a jumper, or the assortment of people standing in a queue. It’s about taking an...
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Task Fourteen: Unfinished Sentences
Sometimes, all it can take to start writing is the beginning of a sentence. I do it all the time for the children in my class; tell them what they’re writing about and give them some sentence openings...
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