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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…
More and more, I think Wild Words is about encouraging writers (including myself) to stop thinking of ourselves as ‘writers.’ It’s about supporting all of us word-crafters to throw out the old words, and speak from a place of freshness.
Read MoreOn a frosty February morning in the mountains of the Pyrenees, I wanted to share with you my response to a question about procrastination that a student asked this week.
Read MoreThe listener or reader waits excitedly for the story. Unconsciously, they know something of what to expect.. There will be a beginning, middle, and end. There will be an arc…
Read MorePolly was a runner- up in the Wild Words Summer Solstice Competition 2019. Here she describes her creative process. Below that, her winning submission…
Read MoreIn wild words moments of high tension, drama and emotion are described in detail, in order to give the listener or reader the opportunity to really feel.
Read MoreThere can be a myth amongst storytellers, especially novel writers, that if you are a storyteller worth your salt, you will be able to sit down and, unplanned, just write the next War and Peace.
Read MoreHere are two beautiful examples of effective use of body sensations on the page. First, a few lines from the poetry of John Keats…
Read MoreAt Wild Words, we view your words as a wild animal, warm-blooded and dynamic. Sometimes I open workshops by asking participants ‘what’s the story that you need to tell?’
Read MoreWild 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