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Task Two: What Are You Waiting For? Make a List
Okay, so this task is supposed to happen in those minutes while I’m waiting for the kettle to boil. But as I’m not actually having a cup of tea at this precise moment, I thought I’d give it a go...
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Task Three: Playing Tag in the Schoolyard
This task is about making remote associations and thinking outside of the norm, making links between two things you would never normally put together. A useful skill for a fantasy writer, definitely,...
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Task X: How would you like to be invisible for a day?
It’s that age-old question. If you could have a superpower, what would you choose? (In fact, I’ve already answered this one on my ‘Who Am I?‘ page.) There are plenty of films that show us what it could...
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Task Eleven: One Minute – One Sentence
Okay, I admit it, I’m currently doing exactly what Margret Geraghty’s book suggests you don’t do to improve your writing skills – I’m sitting down at the weekend and having several hours of writing...
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Starbucks and writing… Part 3
Ah, my favourite place to write, it truly is. I spent many years writing The Sillow Orb, sitting every evening in a room on my own, listening to Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter soundtracks and...
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Task Thirteen: Turning Stains into Stories
So, this week it’s about finding a pattern in a seemingly random jumble of things. It could be the shape of a stain on a jumper, or the assortment of people standing in a queue. It’s about taking an...
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Task Fourteen: Unfinished Sentences
Sometimes, all it can take to start writing is the beginning of a sentence. I do it all the time for the children in my class; tell them what they’re writing about and give them some sentence openings...
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What’s in a name?
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” A famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. If a rose were to be called a turnip instead, it would still have all the properties of the same...
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