The game of writing

Back at Coney yesterday, for the first time this year, it was good to get the creative juices flowing again after the holidays and to try something new. Coffee and cranberry and chocolate muffins (new recipe) helped on a grey, cold day.

 

We shared our writing news. In the last few weeks I've received news that one of my short stories has been shortlisted in a local competition and another one longlisted in a UK wide competition - fingers, toes and everything else crossed for the outcomes in both of these!

We engaged in fun writing exercises to help warm up our brains as we composed a few limericks before thinking about writing in a new environment for all of us - in Gaming. It's big business now.

And like a story, for a game to be successful, there has to be a hook which draws you in, keeps your attention and makes you want to keep engaging in the story, identifying with the characters and trying to solve the problem. At the start of a new writing year it was good to think of writing in a new way.