This week’s prompt by Jude.
The pigeons in our garden have been amorously inclined all week. For this week’s fast draft, write down all your associations to pigeons. Memories, likes/dislikes, Trafalgar Square, sounds etc. Now write a piece where pigeons feature as a backdrop for another kind of relationship. Probably between humans. You could even call your characters Bill and Coo.
Alex and Jude with Guest Speaker, James Ellis
Thursday July 6th. 10.30-12.30pm at
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Have you ever wondered what an editor actually does? Do you know what is the difference is between a structural edit and a copy edit? What suggestions might an editor make? This workshop is for anyone who writes and wants to know more about the editing process. As Ernest Hemingway said, ‘the only kind of writing is rewriting.’
If you are self-editing, you’ll get tips on the best way to approach your work in order to get it into tip-top shape before sending to an agent, or for self-publishing. James Elli has worked at an Oxford-based literary agency as a submissions reader, offers a portfolio of editorial services and is an author himself. Alex and Jude will start the workshop with some simple editing exercises. James recently ran a popular session for us on publishing his novel The Wrong Story with the innovative crowd-funding publishing house, Unbound
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This week’s prompt by Jude.
Was your first car new or used? Describe the car and its particular features. Mine was a Morris 1000 split-screen. Moss grew on the window seals. The driver’s door kept flying open. It had a crank-handle for when the battery went flat. Write about an adventure you had when you owned your first car. Adventures can be large or small.
(Want to get into print this year? We’ve two spaces left on our March workshop talk on self-publishing by the Self Publishing Partnership Bath and, at the moment, several on our April talk by children’s writer Tracy Darnton on her Road to Publication. Book soon.)
Your chance to be anthropomorphic. This donkey may be happy, cunning, or just after an apple. You can take the donkey’s point of view, or write about a donkey you have known. Make it a memoir – that donkey ride on the beach, or a donkey you owned – or make it fiction. Have fun.