by Kathryn | 4 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. When I was a first-year drama student, I bought a moped from a friend, for the queenly sum of $300. Now that many years have passed, I can declare publicly that not only did I fail to register the moped (being completely...
by Kathryn | 3 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Sometimes chaos is good. Other times, the chaos means you can’t move. You know what helps? Lists. Most writers I know love lists. Some make them in the form of blogs (like James Bradley). Others make their lists into diagrams or...
by Kathryn | 2 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. I talked in the first week about Pavlovian responses to writing – setting up habits and spaces to make you feel that you are ready to write. Some of that is about reminding yourself that writing is a pleasure (my study has plants...
by Kathryn | 1 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. When you begin thinking about the people who might inhabit your writing, it can take a little while to find them. If you’re writing from life the people who inhabit your writing might be from memory, or they might be from history,...
by Kathryn | 31 May 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Some years ago, I asked a student if she thought her perfectionist tendencies were getting in the way of her completing her novel and sending it off to potential publishers. Without a pause, she said, “Oh, I’m obviously not a...
by Kathryn | 30 May 2023 | Flow: Week Two
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Writing is physical. We write with our minds, yes, but also with our bodies. We recall pain, emotions, detail – through the body. When we feel desire – we feel it in the body. Hunger, in the body. But this is true for...
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