Myths, story and folktales to nurture your creative self
Wednesday March 27th 6-8pm UK
I’m running this workshop in collaboration with the Land Art Agency, to share how myths and folktales can help us explore the territory of our creative self. Through the story of La Loba (the wolf woman/bone collector), we will gather, collate and reconnect to the indestructible bones of our creative self and discern what is truly important and reliable for us. We’ll be playing with some creative activities including reflective writing and collage.
Full details and booking are here: https://www.landartagency.com/mythstoryfolktales
It will be recorded if you can’t attend live. I am so looking forward to this, I hope you’ll join me!
A writing friend and I have been collaborating on a short story, weaving together the lives of three people all connected by a cafe, coffee and one man. The overarching story and the detailed nuances within it are quite brain-boggling at times. Does everything hang together? Does any part of the story contradict something we said earlier? When weaving a web like this, every detail of the story matters.
As I start to pull together my thoughts for both my fiction and non-fiction books, I’ve been thinking a lot about the story and stories that I want to weave together and what shape they will form. I’ve been gleaning tips from my favourite fiction writer, Joanne Harris, and a new find on YouTube, editor Kieren Westwood. Here’s some of what I’ve gathered, which applies equally I believe to non-fiction as well as fiction.