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We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.
The ‘Aha!’ moment of the reader is also the instant the writer is liberated. To get there, write as if experiencing something for the first time.
Use humour on the page – especially in situations that aren’t at all funny…
Move into close detail – of both inner and outer experience…
Once, in millennium not long before this one, I lived in a Forest…
Martha’s story began, in the way of many, as a glimmer in the back of my mind…
Go out into your garden, or into a public green space. What is the history of the land you stand on? Using your knowledge of how the land has been used over time, the evidence of objects you find, and your imagination, write a 1000 word story about it.
Wild Words - Nature-inspired creative writing for wild writers and storytellers with Bridget Holding.
Wild Words is a call to express the wild in you. For anyone who has a yearning to express themselves. In conversation, spoken word, storytelling, songwriting, writing (poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction).
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Winter Solstice Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray, with You Were Born in a Pandemic