WRITE BY THE SEA IN FOLKESTONE
To provide a safe, inclusive and constructive environment for local writers to share and discuss their work.
TRAVEL PIECE
As we have had two events this year about condensed writing, the journalist and travel writing, your summer exercise will be to write a piece about TRAVEL. You have a free rein but please think about the length of your writing as we will all read our work out during the meeting.
We will be reading them out on the 7th September after the summer break then they will go on the website.
We had an interesting discussion about what goes in a notebook at our last meeting, I liked the hangman and maths……a few grandparents were present. Eventually, we all came up with many ideas and how we remember things, glad it’s not only me that forgets just about everything. I thought separating your notebook into sections was a good idea as it often takes me a while to find what I am looking for.
Our task for this week is to write down words you associate with Spring, then using some of them write a story in 300 or fewer words about SPRING.
These are optional tasks so if you want to share some of your own work with the group for critique or advice then please bring it along.
LOVE
Some people would say that February is the month of love as Valentine’s day is celebrated all over the world, by some!
What does LOVE mean?
You have 100 words to write about LOVE, see you at The Hideaway at 6pm on the 10th of February.
At our first meeting on the 13th of January at 6pm, we will be catching up on any news and finalising the details of our next anthology.
We will also share our stories about the photo we picked from the assortment below.
See you on the 13th
I know sometimes the holidays can get a bit boring if you are on your own or not seeing many visitors or even just missing doing what you love…….writing!
I have an exercise for the ones that would like to do something creative, this is, as always, a choice so stay calm and just write. Even if you don’t have time to edit, that’s ok as you are writing and that’s what you love to do.
These three photos are the prompts so pick one of them and write something, this can be a story, poem or prose but no more than roughly 2,000 words. If you are a planner of any sort could we see your planning when you read the story to us, this is optional but might give someone a helping hand or ideas of how they could plan a story. Or do you want to try planning? This is a good place to have a go, as I am sure we will have a good Q&A when we read the stories, which will be on the 13th January 2022.
For the illustrator’s, would you combine these photos for a book cover or just use one? Describe how you would go about doing a front cover using these pictures, you will have to make up the genre or title so we know how the cover goes with the story.
Have fun, we look forward to reading some in the new year.