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A fine bed

February 21, 2017 By Ellen

A poem inspired by Fionaoutdoors and her adventure in the furniture shop.  A fine bed It will last 20 years, they said. This bed. Like a galleon, strong enough to sail through your stormy nights, safely to the dawns. The wood got ready in forests. Sprouting and branching while you were still rolling through the […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, other things I have learned, Write, writing Tagged With: creative writing, fun, in my life, in the world, poem, weekend, writing

A slacker’s guide to classic novels

December 15, 2016 By Ellen

OK. You know those lists that have all the books you should have read? The ones, in my case, that I feel quite smug about To Kill A Mockingbird and Brave New World, but pretty inadequate about almost everything else. Those. My powers of bluster and google had in the most part got me through. […]

Filed Under: book, book review, book shelf, books, Creative Writing, reading, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: classics, in my life, novels, on my mind, slacker's guide, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, things I've learned, writing

Short story: Two letters that cross in the post

December 7, 2016 By Ellen

By way of a wee change, I thought I’d post a piece of fiction I wrote a while back.      Dear Max,          By the time you read this I will have gone. Left. I thought it was easier if I just went. I don’t think either of us have the […]

Filed Under: change, Creative Writing, letters, short story Tagged With: fiction

Something I wrote – Talking like a teenager

October 17, 2016 By Ellen

Here’s another writing exercise, you might like. It came from the week we looked at The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan. I’m fairly sure proper literary types are supposed to study the book and its inhabitants from a dispassionate point of view. However, I just loved Anais, the tragic kid at the heart of the story. […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing Tagged With: creative writing, Donaldson's School., Edinburgh, fiction, Jenni Fagan, MLitt, teenager, The Panopticon, voice

Metrophobia on National Poetry Day

October 6, 2016 By Ellen

Metrophobia. Fear of poetry. In the first few classes, I thought it was one of those set-piece jokes like teachers repairing the fabric of the school with leftover dining hall dinners. But then I realised they were serious. Creative writers with a fear of poetry. Who knew? I don’t understand enough about it to be […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing Tagged With: creative writing, fear, haiku, humour, in my life, in the world, National Poetry Day, pie, poem

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