Sunday 5 May 2013

Creative Writing workshop at the MAC with Lucy Caldwell

I spent yesterday afternoon with Fionnuala at Lucy Caldwell's creative writing workshop last the MAC in Belfast. Very encouraging and motivating. Some motivational quotes I liked were Calvin Coolidge's 'Nothing can take the place of persistence' and Samuel Beckett's 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'
We did some writing exercises as well as thinking about where we get writing ideas, tense, point of view, finding your voice.
Outside in St. Anne's Square the Festival of Fools was getting underway, to the sound of brass bands playing. As we were contemplating why we need stories, 'Somewhere over the rainbow' wafted in the windows.
All in all an inspiring, motivating workshop. Now to get back to my writing......

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