Category Archives: 2012
Making Our Own Paths
I get a secret tingle of joy every year when I see this regimented line of daffodils come up in my local park, once so carefully planted by the side of a long forgotten path. It’s like a line to a memory the park can’t get rid of. A reminder every year that there are [...]
Paper Thin – a 50 word photostory
It’s not her fault the hotel walls are so thin. She’s almost looking forward to breakfast so she can guess who made so much noise. How is she expected to sleep? And with her meeting tomorrow. She puts the glass back to the wall to listen again. Yes, really disgusting. You can read more 50 [...]
What’s Left Behind – a rubbish short story
Not a judgement (hopefully) but a story I wrote based on this bit of rubbish… It’s a great idea, and you can read other stories based on other rubbish at Throwaway Lines here. Here’s how my story starts… I remember that summer was a time when love became a verb, and not just a noun. [...]
Five Sentences with… Vicky Wilson
What a pleasure today to welcome Vicky Wilson to the website. Anyone interested in poetry and writing in Kent will probably know Vicky already. Or may have seen her around busy making sure poetry is part of our lives… She was Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2007–2008 and the winner of the 2010 competition [...]
Hand in hand – your best writing prompts are right in front of you!
Are you like me and take your hands for granted? Last night, I forgot a friend’s telephone number and realised that I was letting my fingers hover over the phone as if my fingers had their own memory. Then I made a list of other things my hands could do that I never have to [...]
Five Sentences with … MAGGIE HARRIS
Today, it’s my great pleasure to invite Maggie Harris to finish my sentences. Maggie was born in Guyana and have been living in the UK since 1971. She runs poetry workshops for all age groups and was a founding member of The Write Women. You can read some of her poems here and you could [...]
Writing Seeds Round-up
Every weekday on twitter (@sarahsalway), I put up what I’ve been calling ‘writing seeds’ – little lines or random snippets that I use myself to exercise my writing muscles before I start my ‘proper writing’. Here are some from the last week… * His career progressed mostly without him * How to recognise a real [...]
Salway’s 100 Question Character Interview…
One of my favourite creative writing exercises is to have students create a character on the paper through a series of questions, and then get them – one by one – to pretend to be their character and submit to being interviewed by the rest of the group. It’s amazing what startling storylines can come [...]
Five Sentences with… Dan Purdue
To be honest, Dan Purdue’s blog profile doesn’t give away that much about him: My name’s Dan. I write fiction – mainly short stories, but with a novel approaching completion. Well, sort of. I’m thirty-something, I live in Worcestershire, I don’t have a cat. But it was a pleasure to meet him recently on an [...]
