One of the writing exercises involved drawing a character name from a hat and then giving a verbal portrait while holding a lighted match! You can imagine how this concentrates the mind and there were one or two nipped fingers! To her credit, our tutor was quite safety conscious and made us hold the matches over a small bowl, which alas, did not contain any water. If it had the partly spent matches would not have ignited during our lunch break and triggered the smoke alarm! Oblivious to the drama, our little group sat happily in the sunshine munching our sandwiches and wondering which classroom was burning down! A slight exaggeration as the only damage was a heavily scorched table and the loss of our morning's writing prompts. I often wondered if that little episode robbed me of a best seller! The point of all this little story of course, is to show that any situation in life can be used as the basis of a short story, screen play or poem. Inspiration is everywhere! You just need to keep your ears and eyes open and preferably have a note pad handy to record any unusual events or sayings. Attending creative writing workshops and courses will not only teach you the craft of writing and how to present it in an entertaining and publishable way, but will invariable introduce you to a lot of fascinating and probably off beat characters which you can easily make good use of in your own story lines. Hopefully that little lot will have set your mind racing! If you would like a bit more advice about writing ghosts stories you will find How To Write Really, Really, Scary Ghost Stories and How To Write Scary Ghost Stories on the Writelink online creative writing community site useful.
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