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Day 7. Quiet

Jump straight to today's prompt here. How are you going with your daily writing prompts, I wonder? I hope that you are beginning to remember your own creative instinct. I hope that you are casting aside the inner editor and making mess on the page. I hope that you are...

Day 6. Babble

Jump straight to today's prompt here. Have you seen that viral video of two babies talking to each other in a kitchen? Nappies dangling, they slap their thighs, wave their arms around in front of the fridge and nod vigorously as they have a lengthy and intense...

Day 5. Listen up

Jump straight to today's prompt here. A few nights ago I visited the Opera House to see a play with some friends, one of whom is a playwright. Outside, during the interval, we began posing jokingly for selfies (or “facies” as my mother used to call them). A woman...

Day 4. White Fang it

Jump straight to today's prompt here. In Week Two, I asked you to think about the artists who are your role models – to consider those artists, dead or alive who make you want to create more, who make you want to stretch to your full promise. Today, I want to dig more...

Day 3. Connect with the body

Jump straight to today's prompt here. Not too long ago, I went to see a dance-theatre production in Spain, Ponte en sus Zapatos, a physical theatre exploration of the concept of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. (The title literally translates as ‘Put yourself...

Day 2. Find your Mrs Brown

Jump straight to today's prompt here. In 1924 the young novelist Virginia Woolf stood in front of a group of students at the University of Cambridge, to speak about the state of the novel. Her talk became the basis for one of her most famous essays, Mr Bennett and Mrs...