Winter’s Sun Burning Away the Mist

This is a photo of the sun burning away the mist on a winters morning but it might well be an alien world or just swirls of colour in a […]

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Exercises

Rock Pools

Rock pools are little worlds onto themselves, little creatures interacting with hierarchy. Do they realise that there is a world out there that is bigger? A whole ocean for little […]

Exercises

Idea Spiral

Idea have a habit of breeding more ideas, this can be brilliant and make you really productive or it can de-rail the writing process and you simple have too many […]

Pep Talks

Weekend Time is Rhyme Time

Weekends (or when ever your days off are) are valuable, if you are not a full time writer then weekends are often the golden time for writing. Set some solid […]

Exercises

Heroes

Who is your favourite hero or anti-hero? What is it that intrigues you about them? Are they squeaky clean and perfect or do they have a dark past to hide […]

Exercises

Reverse It

Look at processes like growing old or the progression of seasons and how the plants behave, think about all the little interconnections and how they rely on each other and […]

About WoPo

It’s The Write Time!

Today is the first of February which can mean only one thing! That’s right it is poetry writing time 🙂 Though we here at WoPo put out writing stimuli and […]

Guest Bloggers

The Quiet Compere

I am Sarah L Dixon, also known as The Quiet Compere. Why did I make Cheltenham the Finale of the tour? Four years ago I knew very little about Cheltenham […]

Exercises

Light and Luminosity

It is the International Year of Light which is something you could spend a good 15 minutes researching and light festivals from previous years produce some amazing images to write […]

Exercises

Music and the Muse

Music and poetry have always been intwined so why not select some music to write too? Some people find that they can only do this to music that has no […]

Exercises

Where the Weeds Grow

Take the title of this post and/or the photograph and write solidly for 15 minutes. Extra info that might spark a thought or two to help – myths include picking […]