How to unblock your creativity using freewriting
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September marks a new season in what has certainly been one of the strangest years in recent history For me, it brings with it another tentative step towards what we consider ‘normal.’ Last week I packed up my home office ready … Read More

Emerging from isolation: virtual writing workshop 6
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I had a week off work recently and was lucky enough to go up to Whitby again. Although we only stayed for a day, it felt good to breathe the sea air and walk on the sand. There were little … Read More

Unlocking lockdown: sights, sounds and smells: virtual workshop 4
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We are living in very peculiar times. Possibly the strangest times many of us have lived through collectively. They are times of mixed emotions – some good, some bad. To begin with there was fear, anxiety, and a sense of … Read More

Writing inside the box: lockdown virtual workshop 3
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For some, lockdown’s provided an opportunity to have a clear-out and I for one have started sorting out boxes etc that have been hanging around for so long I’ve forgotten what’s in them. Some of what I’ve unearthed has been … Read More

Window on the world: creative writing during lockdown
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Maggie’s Creative Writing Group: – Virtual Workshop 2 While the group I run at Maggie’s isn’t meeting, we are having virtual sessions instead, and I’m posting the exercises here for others to join in. Here’s today’s session. Exercise 1: A … Read More

Writing groups go virtual: workshops for self-isolation.
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At times like this, when many of us are in isolation, writing for wellbeing has never been more important. But sadly, the therapeutic groups that proved a lifeline can’t now meet, so we’re finding ways of doing it virtually instead. … Read More

D. H. Lawrence: writing inspired by Nottingham’s literary heritage
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The Creative Writing group at Maggie’s Nottingham has been invited to produce some work for an exhibition at the D H Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. So for the last few sessions our writing exercises have been based around … Read More

Learning from a literary great
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Background David Herbert Lawrence (1885 – 1930) was an English writer and poet from Nottinghamshire. His father, a miner at Brinsley Colliery, is thought to have been barely literate, but his mother fostered in him a love of learning and … Read More

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