a dancing star!

We’ve been friends since we met in University some twenty years ago. We keep in touch as best we can, which, given we live in opposite sides of the world, means we do the “weddings, births, wakes” circuit. In all this time, Simon has been very possessive and protective about only one thing - his [...]

We were asked to each bring an object to class the following day. I brought a three-pin plug. This was placed with other objects on a table, from which we selected an item. I chose this.

The lesson I learnt was that we could write about anything - if we tried!
the piece:
There at the bottom of [...]

If reading is an exploration of uncharted lands, then books as gifts are beacons that illuminate and guide.

One Word is one of those sites that’s effective precisely because it is glaringly simple.
simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following page. you have sixty seconds to write about it.
as soon as you click ‘go‘ the page will load with the cursor in place.
don’t think. just write.
One Word! You’ll be [...]

This is a series of posts about a 2-day writing workshop that I attended in late March. I wanted to keep track of what I had scribbled on various pieces of paper and so decided to post the results of those exercises here.
After handling motivations (see below), we moved on to dialogue. I hate [...]

We moved from motivations to context and were given briefs on locations in the home. I chose the bed-room as it seemed the most personal and familiar of spaces.
the piece:
They had bought the bed only recently, while the mattress also was specially chosen. Neither survived their first year together. Once in equal measure sturdy and [...]

Motivations were next on the table. Characters need motivation to move, just as we are moved to write. There were options, but I chose this. I think I began to enjoy myself as I wrote this, again within a 10-15 minute time frame.
the piece:
The thunderous roar of those dread machines was enough to make Mary [...]

I cannot see the point, actually; what’s the difference between writing for this site, during private, leisurely moments, and the writing that takes place during socially constructed time frames? In other words, what is the benefit afforded by the writing workshop? The person behind the writing is one and the same, with the identical grim [...]

A little publicized event took place in Singapore last week when a small group of aspiring writers got together to organise a writing workshop led by Jane Camens.
As a workshop, there was little in the way of theory or analysis; the majority of the two days was spent on short 15-20 minute exercises that tested [...]

Autumnal birds chirping, deafening ears for good. Hah, I jest! Kin laments maternal neglect, otherwise pardonable, quirkily resolved. Superficial tomes underwrite varying worries: Xenolith’s yesterday’s zeitgeist!