Paul Chown
Thursday 8 August 2019
Thursday 1 December 2016
Quiet room
Found
this exercise in Screenwriting from theheart by James Ryan. It’s to let you discover what you want to write about.
“Sit in
a chair in a quiet room. When you are totally relaxed open your eyes and look
around the room until you find something you have never noticed before. What
does the object evoke or suggest to you? What feelings, thoughts and
images?...Write whatever comes into your mind about it. Do not take your pen
off the paper until you are experiencing a breakthrough, which could easily
take thirty minutes or more.”
Thursday 10 December 2015
Thursday 19 November 2015
Seed Stories
Came
across another interesting writing exercise, from a book called Writing in the House of Dreams by JennyAlexander. It is about what creating what she calls Seed Stories, that is, memories
which can provide material for future writing. She says:
…three random incidents you can remember
from your childhood can contain the seeds of all your stories in later life.
They have to be private
memories, things which no one has ever talked about, so you can be certain they
are authentically yours. They can’t be the sort of anecdotes people in the
family remember and share, because those have a kind of group ownership.
You write about each seed story for no longer than ten
minutes.
Friday 2 October 2015
NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE: How to Make a Poppet
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Tuesday 22 September 2015
Tania Writes: Short Stories Wanted for Refugees Welcome Antholog...
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Tuesday 15 September 2015
Scribe: Writers' checklist: Writers’ Village Contest winte...
Scribe: Writers' checklist: Writers’ Village Contest winte...: Writers' checklist: Writers’ Village Contest winter 2015
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