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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Pep Talks

Half Way Through! Oh No!

We are half way through the month! Slightly more in fact as this is February – the shortest of all the months! Now you may find that you are lagging […]

Exercises

Love it or Hate it

Love it or hate it, it is that time of year again when all the hearts and flowers and chocolates come out. But what does this date mean to you? […]

Exercises

Food

Look at the glee on their faces – what is your favourite food? Why are these two so happy? How do you think the food will taste? Ask yourself questions […]

Exercises

Modernise The Myth

Story telling and poetry have been intrinsically linked since the beginning, the oldest European literature are epic poems that were handed down in an oral tradition for centuries. They told […]

Exercises

Collecting Colour

Get a cardboard box, decide on a colour – make the box that colour with with paint or glitter or wrapping paper glued onto it or marker pen or gaffer […]

Guest Bloggers

On Writing – Guest Blogger

Bethany W Pope On Writing
 Every writer that I have ever spoken to has had either a bad or an isolated childhood. Some have had childhoods that were both at […]

Exercises

Fury

Angry about something? Write about it, put all that vitriol on paper or bash it out on the key board but don’t update a status or blog post with it! […]

Exercises

The Power of Shrooms!

Mushrooms have a place firmly in folk lore, fiction and the kitchen. Love them or hate them, they crop up through out the year but especially in autumn. What do […]

Pep Talks

Week One – Done!

One week into the poem a day writing challenge that is WoPoWriMo! For those of you who are streaks ahead – fantastic but don’t slacken off now. Remember the story […]

Exercises

Money Boxes

Sometimes you might find little snatches or phrases bombling around in your head. On their own they are not a poem but if you don’t do something with them they […]