Years ago now I made a little game up to help inspire writers which I would take along to meetings. The first ones were hand made and coloured in, then I cut shapes from cards and glued them together for mark two and then I made a digital version and got a set printed with moo...
Since then I have made a large version which I take to festivals and kid's workshops and so on.
Now as part of World Poetry Writing Month a couple of packs of the cards are being given away. All you need to do is make a comment in on the WoPo site here.
The cards are not yet for sale so this is probably your only chance to get a copy for a while yet and I know some of you have been waiting for them to be launched 🙂
I ment to start cooking them at like 5 but I went for what was supposed to be a short nap and nobody wanted to wake me up so I got up at 7:30 :/
I was grumpy but it was decided that the girls could stay up late and at 9 o'clock we finally had pancakes!
We had savoury and sweet and so on and the girls really enjoyed it!
Again old photos but this is Jean doing her first ever electronics with Alaric - it was the first Christmas Holiday of Jean starting school - Daddy explained and Jean drew a sort of circuit diagram and then they made it 🙂
Shortly after this Jean received two electronics kits as presents.
Saturday I went to Arts Cafe at Centre Arts in Cheltenham to again soak up some creative vibes - I was writing my novel this time rather than poetry.
But whilst there I was given four lovely glasses - just the sort I want for serving deserts in!
Then on the way out a man stops me and Jean and says the green grocer is giving away the stuff that wont last till Monday - so I'm thinking he's selling it off for pennies and go round there and no it's free and he starts giving me bags of stuff!
It would all go to waste other wise - it was strange how everyone was apologising about taking free food - so British.
Alaric just looked at me and said 'I see your waif and stray field kicked in again' cheeky sod!
We took some of it around to our neighbours and some of it was just beyond, we eat a load of it and had enough for some jam making etc...
Today I went to my second one day writer's retreat - this time at Ruskin Mill near Nailsworth. It was organised by the same people Writing Space Stroud and was once again lovely.
It was raining and I currently do not have a camera which is why there are not a hundred photos of chickens with feather flares and light sculptures on the water.
This time it was £30 instead of £20 but included a yummy lunch in the cafe.
I met more writers and had great conversations over tea and cake and lunch between mad sprees of writing. I got 9000 words of The Awakening written today which is amazing even if it does mean the novel is going to be much longer than I was expecting :/
I will finish off the last 1000 words before bed to round it up to 10K.
Once home Alaric made a lovely dinner whilst I made some visual poetry booklets out of card, pen, and old writing magazines. This lead to a fun discovery of using someone I know's story title as part of it 🙂
Events and Outings, Sarah, Writing | sarah | 
Thu 14th Feb 2013 11:01 am | 
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