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Featured
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Apr 17, 2025
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Apr 17, 2025

Winter Solstice Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray, with You Were Born in a Pandemic

Apr 17, 2025
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
Nov 11, 2023
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
Nov 11, 2023

We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.

Nov 11, 2023
Poetry Lover in the Wilds: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Jun 7, 2023
Poetry Lover in the Wilds: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Jun 7, 2023
Jun 7, 2023
Live Afresh
May 27, 2023
Live Afresh
May 27, 2023

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.

May 27, 2023
Make 'Em Smile: The Art of Using Humour
Apr 21, 2023
Make 'Em Smile: The Art of Using Humour
Apr 21, 2023

Use humour on the page – especially in situations that aren’t at all funny…

Apr 21, 2023
Go In Closer: the art of narrowing focus
Mar 20, 2023
Go In Closer: the art of narrowing focus
Mar 20, 2023

Move into close detail – of both inner and outer experience…

Mar 20, 2023
Radical New Year’s Resolutions for Writers 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Radical New Year’s Resolutions for Writers 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Drinking a Cup of Tea
Dec 7, 2022
Drinking a Cup of Tea
Dec 7, 2022

The guided writing ‘experiment’ for this winter season…

Dec 7, 2022
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester
Jul 4, 2022
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester
Jul 4, 2022

Once, in millennium not long before this one, I lived in a Forest…

Jul 4, 2022
Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers
Jun 28, 2022
Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers
Jun 28, 2022

Martha’s story began, in the way of many, as a glimmer in the back of my mind…

Jun 28, 2022
June 04, 2021

A Writer's Process: Pam Keevil

June 04, 2021/ Bridget Holding
A Writer's Process: Pam Keevil

Would Hawkwood College, near Stroud have any online courses during the pandemic? Yes. One which immediately appealed was called Nature Writing

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June 04, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Writing Competition, Writing Process, Writing Tips
Pam Keevil
May 03, 2021

Adventures in Smell: the Drowsy Scent of Velvet-Petaled Roses

May 03, 2021/ Bridget Holding
Adventures in Smell: the Drowsy Scent of Velvet-Petaled Roses

The power of smell to evoke the world. If you can smell something, how do you find the words to convey that experience…?

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Inspiring Quotes, Nature Writing, Newsletter, Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Writing Tips
Sensory Impressions, Smell
February 15, 2021

Acting On Impulse

February 15, 2021/ Bridget Holding
Acting On Impulse

The word emotion comes from the latin ex-movere meaning to move out into. The purpose of emotion is not just to feel…

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February 15, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ Comment
Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Writing Tips, Newsletter
impulse, instinct
January 25, 2021

Radical New Year's Resolutions for Writers 2021

January 25, 2021/ Bridget Holding
Radical New Year's Resolutions for Writers 2021

For 2021, how about we give a load of stuff up? Let’s bring THE END to the things that aren’t serving our writing. It’s easier to do it together, don’t you think?

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Newsletter, Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Writing Tips
Resolutions, Radical New Years Resolutions, New Year
December 22, 2020

Crisis and Opportunity

December 22, 2020/ Bridget Holding
Crisis and Opportunity

The response to the Wild Words Competition for this half year (it closed last night), has been amazing, but the high number of entries perhaps not surprising…

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Life In France, Nature Writing, Newsletter, Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Writing Tips
France, December
October 06, 2020

Birthing A Project

October 06, 2020/ Bridget Holding
Birthing A Project

There’s the birth of the words, but then it still has to grow and develop, and find independence, and its tribe, and where to live.

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Newsletter, Writing Process, Writing Tips, Writing Prompts
publishing
September 11, 2020

Summer Focus, and Punctuation

September 11, 2020/ Bridget Holding
Summer Focus, and Punctuation

It doesn’t half focus one’s mind, to be sleeping and writing a novel in the woodland …

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September 11, 2020/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Writing Prompts, Writing Tips, Newsletter, My Writing Day, Life In France, A Room of My Own
punctuation, summer
June 02, 2020

On Gestures, and a Sense of Direction

June 02, 2020/ Bridget Holding
On Gestures, and a Sense of Direction

I hope that your imagination, your passion to tell the story, is providing you with direction, and nourishment in these unclear times…

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Writing Tips, Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Newsletter
Gestures, Newsletter
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Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
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