From words comes beauty! This rose fell onto my keyboard. CREATIVE WRITES RESEARCH PROJECT:A couple of weeks ago, I put out a call to speak to ten North London Women who were interested in creative writing. Creative Writes was born around four years ago and is now a full time business. It therefore seemed a good...
Muswell Hill,
London
N10 1PP
Category: <span>creative writing workshops</span>
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DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK WORKSHOP
The writers hard at work! Hello all, as I type – two men in luminous yellow jackets and hoods are outside my top floor window in what looks like a large bucket, trying to work out how to attach Christmas lights to a very tall street lamp! It is midnight and raining. They do not...
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RETREAT INSPIRATION!
Let Free Flow Writing take you anywhere! Hello, I am looking forward to delivering the Creative Writes guest workshop at the Urban Writers’ Retreat this Sunday 23rd September in the City. The Retreats are fantastic and I am very honoured to be a part of it. Charlie – the brain behind the Retreats, asked me to...
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SUMMER IS….
Hand written poetry Hello!We had a great time at Chewsday yesterday – our Creative Writes workshop at the Leluu Supper Club venue in London Fields, where we are treated to a truly scrumptious dinner before the writing begins…Here is a poem written by two of the group members. We wrote a list of words associated...
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CREATIVE WRITES AND BELSIZE COMMUNITY LIBRARY LAUNCH WORKSHOPS!
As many of you will know, Creative Writes loves partnerships! So we are delighted to announce that Creative Writes and Belsize Community Library have teamed up to offer you the chance to get writing on 20th August 2012. If you have always wanted to try a Creative Writes workshop, this is your chance!There will be...
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WRITING ACROSS THE AGES
A British seaside town at night Creative Writes visited a U3A (University of the Third Age) group in Essex last week. The creative writing group have been meeting weekly for a while and invited me along to offer some new ideas and a different approach. We had a great morning of writing and laughter! There were...
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SHARING WORDS
Sharing words I was going to blog something else today but I have been thinking a great deal about conversations and their importance. A writer friend recently suggested that we email each other free writes along a particular theme that was relevant in our lives at the time. Over the weeks, it has become a...
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WRITING PARENTHOOD
Father & child On this Father’s Day, I have been thinking about the upcoming Writing Parenthood workshops which begin again on the evening of Tuesday 3rd July 2012 and will be taught by Creative Writes (organised with Writing Parents). Following the launch in March of this year – which is blogged about here – it will allow mums and...
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THEATRICAL MUSING
Production of Gatz – June 2012 This week, I have seen two powerful theatre productions – ‘Mary Shelley’ at The Tricycle by Shared Experience and ‘Gatz’ at Noel Coward Theatre by the Elevator Repair Service. Both productions were inspired by ground breaking works of literature (Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’) and their...
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CREATING CHARACTER
Artist Martine Charalambou’s painting in progress of Drag Artist Jonny Woo, at Sutton House live painting event in May Last Sunday, Creative Writes participants of the Creating Character workshop were sent out into the wilds of Muswell Hill Broadway to take inspiration from ‘real life’ characters. Before setting out, we wrote a list of characters/people...