HeyJaredHoneyLeaf Creative Writing | Mel Parks
A writing community with live workshops as well as newsletters on the writing process & seasonal living together with prompts, tips and techniques to help your creativity thrive. A blend of creativity, craft and wellbeing.
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FLOW: a weekly guided creative writing workshop live online for paid subscribers. (opens the original)
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Dear allI run a weekly creative writing hour in three seasons each year, with breaks along the way. This season’s theme is FLOW and I’ll be taking the river as a guiding metaphor.This afternoon, our theme is ‘stream’ and we’ll be writing in stream-of-consciousness style, using Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway as an example. Each week, I share exercises and prompts which lean into the season but are also a unique mix of creative writing craft as well as journalling-style ideas. Whatever you write -
A moment of stillness (opens the original)
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Today, I am back in my garden office after eight months of working at the dining table in a busy house. I am so pleased to be back!! <img alt="brown leather chair in a wooden cabin surrounded by piles of books" class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://subst
FLOW: a weekly guided creative writing workshop live online for paid subscribers. (opens the original)
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Dear allI run a weekly creative writing hour in three seasons each year, with breaks along the way. This season’s theme is FLOW and I’ll be taking the river as a guiding metaphor.This afternoon, we’ll be exploring ideas connected with wells and springs! Each week, I share exercises and prompts which lean into the season but are also a unique mix of creative writing craft as well as journalling-style ideas. Whatever you write - fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, journalling, personal
In memory of my first creative writing teacher, Andie Lewenstein (opens the original)
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I began this week by practising my sentences - I felt like a musician practising scales. It’s very different to the improvisation of freewriting. I enjoyed it and I’m learning new things and I don’t know why I’ve never thought of this before! Somehow getting stuck into a big project and upping the word count feels like a more valid thing for a writer to be doing. However, by Wednesday, my writing self had other ideas and told me it was high time I got back to that bigger project. I don’t know if
FLOW: a weekly guided creative writing workshop live online for paid subscribers. (opens the original)
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Dear allI run a weekly creative writing hour in three seasons each year, with breaks along the way. This season’s theme is FLOW and I’ll be taking the river as a guiding metaphor.This afternoon, we’ll be exploring ideas connected with bogs, swamps and marshes, then giving a palimpsest a go! Each week, I share exercises and prompts which lean into the season but are also a unique mix of creative writing craft as well as journalling-style ideas. Whatever you write - fiction, memoir, creative no
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