by Ros Woolner
Our November writing session was all about objects, but we also revisited some forms of writing that we’d covered earlier in the year – flash fiction, children’s picture books and poetry.
We’d all come prepared with two objects (everything from a pair of socks to a granite model of a tin mine) and our first task was to describe them and ask them some questions e.g.
· What do you know?
· If you were a human, what would you look like?
· What do you remember?
Marion shared some advice from Mslexia on writing flash fiction and poems, and we read some examples involving objects, including “The Bear’s Head” by David Gaffney (154-word flash, More Sawn-off Tales, Salt 2013) and “Love Song (for a man with a hundred pairs of glasses)” by Jane Seabourne (poem, Bright Morning, Offa’s Press 2010).
Then it was our turn to write down some ideas about how we could use our objects and to develop one of those ideas into a piece of writing and share it with the group.
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