Edible Words Historic Words February is a month of research and inspiring projects for Creative Writes… On Saturday, I returned to Sutton House – which will always be special to me. It was the first of a new series of four Creative Writes workshops. Before the workshops began, I sat in the window seat of the...
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ALL CONSUMING WORDS & MAKING PLANS
My Cut Up Words January has been positive & eventful for Creative Writes and has included time spent laying the foundations for February and beyond.Last week – ‘Life as a Workshop Leader’ included two Blotted Ink Workshops at Pickled Pepper Books in Crouch End for 7-9 & 9-11 year olds, where we continued as Story Detectives...
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BALANCE
What will you prioritise this year? Happy New Year! I hope 2013 has got off to a fantastic start for you. At the end of last year, I promised regular blog posts for Diary of a Workshop Leader and I have been thinking about what this life as a full time self-employed business woman entails. ...
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FROM INSPIRATION TO WORDS
Where will you take your inspiration from in 2013? Welcome to the first ‘Diary of a Workshop Leader’ blog post.Creative Writes workshops have been on a short break over the Holidays and as 2012 draws to an end and the New Year awaits – I have been thinking about what inspires us to write. Who...
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REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE WRITES
Creative Writes is always developing – watch this space for the new style Blog in 2013 As we quickly approach 2013, I thought now was a perfect time to highlight some of the Creative Writes 2012 journey and talk a little about 2013. This blog will look slightly different in the New Year – it...
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HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY!
Play with words! Today was National Poetry Day and to celebrate, there was a themed Creative Writes workshop – Playing with Poetry & Words. It was wonderful to be back at my beloved North Bank – an inspirational Victorian house in Muswell Hill.There was one fast paced free flow exercise after another and we experimented...
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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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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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A LITTLE BIT OF NON LITERAL THINKING!
Where do you call home? Last week, during the Creative Writes Workshop at the Leluu Supper Club venue – we did some non literal thinking! The writers really enjoyed being asked to think differently. The first exercise was to write a list of words and phrases that you associate with Summer and then I asked the...
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World Poetry Writes!
World Poetry Day Celebrations at Creative Writes Workshop today, 21 March 2012 Today at the Creative Writes workshop in Muswell Hill, we celebrated World Poetry Day by sharing our favourite poems and also by writing our own. One of the exercises was to give your partner a list of words that were written during a...