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Creative Writing Course

WFMeyer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:37:09 +0000

Susan Hill talks about PLACES in her Creative Writing Course blog. She finds that place is often as and sometimes more important than characters – that place helps to form the people who are born and bred and live in them. For the Thing To Do (TTD) she requests you go somewhere you can be alone and relax. Then think about places that have made an impact on you and then write down not so much descriptions, but rather just words and phrases that come to mind about them. See post from October 10th

Telling Stories

WFMeyer — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:17:04 +0000

Creative Writing Blog: Novelist Susan Hill, addresses writer’s in her matter-of-fact way who claim they can’t think of anything to write. As a fiction writer, if you don’t have a story to tell or don’t have any ideas for a story – why write?

In a second entry she tells writer’s to lighten up when making time for their writing. She suggests you find the right time to write. She allows you 20 minutes to write in one sitting. If you’re good she’ll let you have 30 minutes next week…