Getting creative at Arvon

A few weeks ago, I took myself away on an Arvon Foundation creative writing course at their Totleigh Barton centre in deepest Devon. It was so incredibly stimulating to dedicate time and energy purely to playing with words, absent of all the normal distractions - phones, email and the general background noise of life. It was fun to follow the discipline of completing a prescribed exercise in 20 or 30 minutes; to produce something you might (or might not) feel brave enough to read out; to see whether your efforts were rewarded with words of encouragement and support, or awkward fidgeting and averted eyes. It was delightfully sociable and mentally challenging, and it reminded me how much I enjoy making words come together to bring stories and ideas to life.

Over coming months, I'm looking forward to developing some creative writing projects of my own, alongside the projects I work on for my clients.

25th Jan 2010