The Three Sisters
This short story started as a class exercise to write a piece of micro-fiction about 350 to 400 words long. Then, every day for a week we were given a prompt wo...
Author: Terry
Creative Writing in Lockdown
It’s a month since I’ve posted here, just before the coronavirus lock-down started on Tuesday 24th March. This also coincided with starting a new on...
Dwelling in the past brings solace and rest
Dwelling in the past brings solace and rest, The days of youth and deeds of derring do, Source of consolations for the final test. Memories of old friends, time...
Autofiction as Palimpsest
Autofiction, perhaps better called autobiographical fiction, has become a genre of writing in vogue. The term was coined in 1977 but the genre is much older. It...
Flash fiction – Sanctuary
The New term for my creative writing group started last week. This time there will be a theme running through our work which is ‘sanctuary’. This is...
Unshackling the unconscious: reflection on writing a cento and the I Ching.
In my creative writing class we recently did an exercise writing a cento. This is a poem made up from lines taken from other poets existing work, each line is t...
Exercise in micro-fiction
Micro-fictions are short stories of 100 words or less. I have three to write as this week’s homework for my creative writing class, all referencing in som...
The bottle-green shoe
This was homework for my creative writing class for the 5th November. The theme was shoes. This is a true story told to me by a solid, down-to-earth Yorkshirema...
My Happy Days Coat
This was my creative writing class home work for the 8th October 2019. We were asked to write about an item of clothing. It was my therapist’s idea to get me th...