by Kathryn | 11 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Inspiration rarely happens when we strain at it, when we dig and poke and fight. My first professional playwriting commission happened when I was 25, which seems absurdly young now. It came about immediately after I wrote a play...
by Kathryn | 10 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Here we are, halfway through Immersion. Midway. Midway is beautiful. It’s the deepest place. When I wrote Storm and Grace, my sixth novel, I became obsessed with freediving, the practice of taking one breath and diving deep below...
by Kathryn | 9 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. We are limited in our travel, limited by time and space. We are creatures of the body. Speculative fiction – the kinds of stories that allow us to fly and flit and move through dimensions – give us the feeling of freedom in space....
by Kathryn | 8 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. When I was twenty, after a motorbike crash (this bore no connection to the unfortunate incident of the unregistered moped), I had an experience of temporary blindness. This was, at the time, referred to as ‘hysterical blindness’....
by Kathryn | 7 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. We looked yesterday at returning to the senses as a way of accessing memory. Good writing – whether it’s memoir, script, poetry or fiction – requires presence. The presence of the body, the presence of the heart. More than that,...
by Kathryn | 6 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Three
Jump straight to today's prompt here. During the first week, I asked you to really notice your senses – how things smell, how they taste. I asked you to notice it during the day and to use your senses to guide your writing a little more. Senses are also the gateway to...
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