Having done precious little in the way of writing since December - when I finished the final draft of the 16,000 word dissertation for my Master's Degree in Creative Writing and felt like I might never want to write again - today I gutted my writing desk and sat down to work on a little idea that's been niggling at me for weeks. In the process of said desk-gutting, I found the pinboard I use for photographs/writing notes/oddments and several old assignments and commentaries discussing my creative process. One of my most-read blog posts here is entitled Writing Prompts for the Creative Scribe - The cover words from a notebook I bought some time ago. Of course, everyones prompts and processes are different, but I'm a fairly visual person and long before writing workshops and the need to analyse my process for academic purposes, I always set off to create myself a 'writing moodboard'. I find this particularly helpful at the beginning of the writing process when...
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