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Response writing is an wonderful way to get yourself writing, and can have an immediacy about it that other types of writing do not. However the most common way to […]

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Boh, Tidal Wave and More

Ripples and waves make up everything around us, the patterns repeated on different scales, again and again through nature but within these ways lurks the super waves, seemingly out of […]

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Built

The word built carved into stone and part of a building, think about the concept behind this, it is similar to writing – write and marks a loop in human […]

Guest Bloggers

William Humphreys – Guest Blogger

Will shares some of his thoughts, on writing his collection, in a fluid lyrical way. “I can’t tell you what’s in my head. If I did you’d never feel safe […]

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Change

Imaging that you could change into anything that you wanted, from a squirrel to a snail, to a bear, to the Earth, star, universe, or maybe into love or life […]

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Inspired? Pin it!

The image library social media site Pinterest can be a gold mine for poets. Start a board collect images that inspire you, then spend five minutes with each picture examining […]

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A Path Less Traveled

Do 10 minutes of writing from this photo, maybe ask yourself where the child is going? Are they lost? Where doe the path go? Is there happiness in sunshine and […]

Pep Talks

Almost There

It is the home leg of the WoPo poem a day challenge, some of you are almost there, some have barely begun and others have stormed through and finished and […]

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Hidden Things

Have you ever looked at a cloud or tree and seen a shape of a dragon or boat or lady with streaming hair? Above is a photo of a moss […]

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A World Made Of…

Choose something to make the world out off – cheese, textiles, car parts, frog slime… you name it and then you create it. How would it work? What would the […]

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Mud

Mud sticks, but to whom and why? That’s all you are getting – now start writing!