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Colin 101 - Newton Abbot library 2016

25/7/2016

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FLASH FICTION - COLIN 101

Please take a minute to read Colin's piece of flash fiction. The rules of the exercise are: write 101 words in ten minutes. I think you'll really enjoy it. It's a great achievement. Thanks Colin.

"We're running out of time, Jake!"

Jake looked up at the old clock, clunking away the seconds. Meanwhile tumblers clicked softly in his earpiece. Jake's brow was wet.


"Stop jumping around, Debs, you're makin' me nervous!" Then he smiled, turning the iron handle.

"He'll be back any moment..."

The safe creaked open. There it was. Thick and bulging, the manila file was clearly marked "Sebastian Brodski". Jake grabbed it. His eyes caught the glint of a gun. Should I?

"Bloody hell, Jake - wadda we want that for? Don't you think we got enough trouble?"

The office door swung open. 

Brodski laughed.
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         Ways With Words Literary Festival 2016

19/7/2016

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To mark the 25th anniversary of the WWW festival, the organisers held a Word Circus. This was a non-ticketed event that gave a platform for writers and performers, agents and publishers to give talks to festival goers, free of charge. It was an ideal moment to get, at first hand, advice and details about writing and the book industry.

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The range and variety of the speakers appearing at The Word Circus.

The focus of Friday's sessions was the process of writing.

​My workshop at 4pm focused on the use of Time as a device in writing. I used The Great Gatsby to show how a writer can keep dramatic tension in their writing.

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      A Big Thank You To Newton Abbot Writers

19/7/2016

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Having just completed Phase 2, Newton Abbot writers - Blanche, Helen, Norrie, Isobel, Colin, Tracy, and Sue (not pictured) are about to embark on a new frontier: Phase 3 - we will be focussing on their own compositions in the sessions and concentrating on improving individual techniques.

This will be the culmination of two phases of a creative writing course which has focused, to a large part, on the techniques of great writers, and other just plain good writers. What we have discovered is that great prose is really quite a pure thing, it doesn't strive to be clever or literary.

So, this is good news - all we have to do, to be a great writer ourselves is keep our writing as clear and concise as possible. 

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR SOME SENSATIONAL FLASH FICTION FROM THE NEWTON ABBOT GROUP 


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Benedict will be teaching the second instalment
of his How to Write Amazing Prose series at

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the topic for the 2nd session: "Life Inside The Plotting Shed"
Saturday - April 29th - 09.00-12.00
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