It was the Vale Royal Writers Group meeting on Monday. Going there always gives me inspiration - it's great to hear about what everyone is doing. We changed the format of the meeting this month to include some actual writing. A bit of an exercise writing for 10 minutes on a random picture. I love these exercises. You walk in the room and 10 minutes later you have something on paper that you hadn't even thought about. Ever. Absolutely appearing totally out of the blue. Not even thought about whilst driving there in the car. It always amazes that the piece of work just flows out of the brain, down the arm, through the pen and on to the paper. It may not be a great thing but it is something that didn't exist before you did it. Really amazing. You should try it. Just sit down with a pen and a piece of blank paper. Take any magazine and randomly open it. Take the first picture you see and write whatever comes to mind for the next ten minutes. It could be a poem, a story, a random list of words - it doesn't matter, just wrte anything. And don't stop. If you think you've come to the end after a couple of minutes, look at the picture again and just keep writing. Write anything. Absolutely anything, if you get stuck just write blah, blah, blah until you start again. You'll be amazed at what comes out.
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Everybody has different styles of writing. Having an open mind can be good.
The ten or fifteen minute exercise is a great way of getting the creative juices flowing.
I hate having writers block - but find when it comes back - I come back with a vengeance and often it's my best!
Monkey writing is like a pre-warm up before producing a more structured piece of work. We could perhaps do just that - continuous writing about anything for five minutes following with ten/fifteen minutes on the exercise itself.
Having not read a fiction book for a while - I find music a great inspiration... lyrics!
For me writing lyrics which can be tranferred into music is awsome. As you said Chris writing can be anything (business, port folios, job applications - which seem mundane) to the more exciting genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and lyrics to music - even cleverly written advertising pieces.
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