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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…
At the slightest excuse I unchain myself from my desk, break out of the building, and write in nature. I love to write outdoors because, in the act of writing about it, in the words of American poet, E.E. Cummings, the world becomes ‘mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful’. There is no better feeling than when words canter on the broad savannah, dive deep in the dark ocean, and swoop in the vast blue sky.
Why are you a writer-in-the wild?
Please write and tell me 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