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Create some time and find a quiet place to sit and think. Imagine there’s a screen in your mind and you can put any image there. When you find an image, ask yourself: where, who, why, how, when? What came before? What comes next?

Then wipe the screen and try out other images until you have one that inspires you. This month’s task is to write your opening scene from this image, trying to evoke the feeling and atmosphere of the story you watched in your head.

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‘Writers need to adopt a sense of real responsibility towards their work’

Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies

 

 

‘Altering my physical space automatically changes my state of mind and enables me to start work’

Juno Dawson, author of dark teen thrillers, and non-fiction including Being a Boy and This Book is Gay

 

 

‘Only non-writers imagine that authors sit in an effort-free trance while their story descends from the skies’

Zoe Fairbairns, author of Write Short Stories and Get Them Published



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Create some time and find a quiet place to sit and think. Imagine there’s a screen in your mind and you can put any image there. When you find an image, ask yourself: where, who, why, how, when? What came before? What comes next?

Then wipe the screen and try out other images until you have one that inspires you. This month’s task is to write your opening scene from this image, trying to evoke the feeling and atmosphere of the story you watched in your head.

Access this month’s task. 

 

 

 

‘Writers are no longer bound to the desk; they can write with the tools in their pocket’

Katharine Grubb, author of Write a Novel in Ten Minutes a Day

 

 

‘Is it better to make yourself confront the blank page or let the ‘muse’ take you?’

Nelle Andrew, literary agent at Peters Fraser and Dunlop

 

 

‘Focus on the chunk of work that you can do’

Mike Gayle, author of novels including Turning Thirty, My Legendary Girlfriend and Mr. Commitment