02 March 2024
Posted by Sukie & Claire
Hi Writers!
This week we explored writing inspired by images in Picture Prompts!
Starting out with our weekly check-in, we described our weeks as a colour.
We had a lot of variety in this week’s reading check-in.
Poppy M: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’
Berry: ‘First Class Murder’
Poppy C: ‘Sherlock Holmes’
Claire: ‘The Witches of Vargo’
Sukie: ‘Dorset Up Along and Down Along’
We also did a writing check-in this week to see what everyone has been up to outside of the Young Writers’ sessions:
Berry had been working on a narrative of ‘Beowulf’, one of the oldest stories still told in the
world!
Poppy M had been writing a story in the notes on her phone, about someone living on an
enclosed island, who finds a person washed up on the beach and has to keep them a secret.
We talked about some writers we knew of who have written entire novels in the notes apps
on their phones, whilst commuting or going about daily life
Poppy C had been working on a historical, epistolary piece – a letter from an evacuated child
in World War II to an older brother or father in the war
Claire had been working on new pieces to incorporate into Bourn Jammy at the
Bournemouth Writing Festival
Sukie had been working on pieces for the upcoming Sea Side Gothic pamphlet and several
writing competitions (including the one listed at the end of this blog!)
After our check-ins, we looked through the magazines and books Claire had brought and each chose
an image of a person (or animal) as the character we’d write about during this session. We took
some time to make character profiles before Claire gave us the setting: an art gallery. Each of us
created a story about how our character got to the gallery, and back to the magazines we went to
find an image our character could be admiring there.
Once we’d had some time to write a description of the art piece, Claire gave us the final stage of this
exercise – ‘your character gets pulled into the world of the image’! Everyone wrote a sensory
description of the interior world of their image, and we spent the rest of the session sharing our
pieces:
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone for next week’s session!
Don’t forget, the Shaftesbury Tales writing competition has opened! Open to writers living in Dorset
(so that’s at least some of you!), it has age categories of 11 & under; 12-16; 17-19; 25 & under, and
‘open to all’. It’s a community project with a procession from Corfe to Shaftesbury, performing the
tales of people living in the Dark Ages in villages along the route.
Please do spread the word and submit something –
if you are looking for some extra eyes on your work, do come along to the Junior (7-11) & Young (11-14) Writer workshops at Forest Arts, New Milton.
Just as a reminder, we run on Saturday mornings (09:30 for Junior Writers and 11:30 for Young Writers) and you can sign up by
contacting the Forest Arts Centre directly, or come along and we can add you to the list!
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