I’m already missing my cozy Paris apartments and the elegant streets of my favourite city. How can one city be so blessed with history, art and elegance?
So now…
I focus on finding the history, art and elegance in my area and in my own art and writing.
This weekend I will teach the June instalment of the Art Write Now series of workshops at HOTA on the Gold Coast.
We’ll be revisiting the Beneath The Surface exhibition and all it’s watery beauty. Participants with have the option to create prompted poems and/or create worlds for their stories.
Worldbuilding is a crucial part of any narrative. If you draw the reader into your world, you can take them on a journey.
The poetry prompts are inspired by The Magic Words by Joseph Fasano. I highly recommend this beautiful and simple little book, especially for anyone who wants to write poetry but feels unable/unworthy of using language in a loose way. Fasano’s prompts give you permission to be a silly or deep or derivative or inventive as you like.
Once this workshop is done I’ll start working on a series of workshops for creatives for August to November. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and I really just need to get organised. The beginning of this year has been so unsettled with my dad’s injury then my husband’s, postponing Spain then Bali then setting off to Paris.
Am I silly for hoping that the rest of the year will be any more predictable?
My novel Alia Henry and the Ghost Writer is now available on lots of new bookshops with the new cover. The second book is finished and I’m editing at the moment (sooo…. I guess it’s not really finished!) Click the new pink cover below for links to the book.
The blue cover is for the second book in the series!
The Door to Yesterday is set in modern day and 60s London (with a little side trip to Paris, naturally.) Alia inherits her great-aunt’s London townhouse and must find out the truth behind her family’s self-destructive past before its too late.
Because I got so distracted by life, I didn’t publish this post until Saturday!
Have a wonderful weekend…
