A Writer's Process: Eva Meijer
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Eva Meijer, author of Bird Cottage and the upcoming Animal Languages, spoke to us about her wild self and her wild words…
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Using The Senses
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The Wild Words on the page use a range of sensory data: colours, smells, tastes, sounds, textures.
Read MorePreparing For The Arrival Of The BIG IDEA
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The wild words on the page are a wonderful unfolding mystery. Information is revealed, according to what will impact the listener or reader most powerfully.
Read MorePoint of View
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Wild words are tense and dramatic. This tension is partly constructed by the storyteller’s choices around point-of-view.
Read MoreA Storyteller's Process and Competition Runner-Up: Penny Turner
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I wrote the poem about the wolf after I met a wild wolf in the mountains of Northern Greece where I was working as part of a sustainable development project for the area…
Read MoreA Storyteller's Process and Competition Runner Up: Pauline Brown
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My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2014, the same year that the Loch Leven Heritage Trail opened…
Read MoreA Storyteller's Process and Competition Winner: Jupiter Jones
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I am a slow writer. Others may set daily word targets of hundreds or thousands, I take comfort in a quote from James Joyce…
Read MoreThe Way People Speak
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The way people speak. Even if your words are passing directly from your internal world on to the page, you'll still have heard them in your head first.
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We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.