Gardenias again
I wrote this piece of flash fiction after I’d been given, what we writers call ‘a prompt’. A writing prompt is a word or phrase that is intended to stimulate a story of some type or a poem. The prompt … Read more ...
Tag: noir
Square
About 35°C in the shade
‘Opening the wardrobe door’ was a recent writing prompt I was given. Quick as a flash fiction writer, I came up with this… … Read more ...
Perfect Day
… Read more ...As part of an exercise in characterisation, the men in my class were asked to write a piece about a woman, and the ladies were to write about a man. Examples given to us were from Alan Bennett’s “A Chip
Hand in hand with the great Stephen King?
… Read more ...Recently in my creative writing class we carried out an exercise, adding to the beginning or end of a fragment of text we’d been given by our tutor. I was excited by the start of the story and piggybacked my