inspiration

Creative writing group this afternoon

Today with my group we are going to talk about observation, and how it can lead to inspiration and then to creation… well, some creativity! Here are eight little examples of observation, and I’m going to ask my group to deliberate on one of them, and then imagine how they might use it to suggest […]

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Dark hedges

Sometimes you visit a place and you don’t have to have much imagination to find it atmospheric. Such a place is dark Hedges near Armoy in County Antrim; we visited there early afternoon on a bright through sunless day. Even with light streaming in through the trees and the occasional passing car it was an […]

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Forcing it…

Nothing is easier or more enjoyable than writing when I’m bursting full of a story, words racing across the page catching up with the events happening in my imagination, describing the characters and what they’re doing and thinking, or recording the conversations they’re having with each other, painting in the background, sketchily at first maybe, even though it’s […]

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