tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post6454386177200977732..comments2023-04-16T04:34:24.982-07:00Comments on A Zigzag Road: Six things I learnt from Sophie Kingjoanne foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-85156808594368022592010-05-16T02:15:54.944-07:002010-05-16T02:15:54.944-07:00Laraine I am so glad you visited. I enjoyed lookin...Laraine I am so glad you visited. I enjoyed looking at your blog the other day but afterwards I couldn't remember how I'd come across it!joanne foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-29404428922589293602010-05-14T15:03:59.729-07:002010-05-14T15:03:59.729-07:00You summarized your instruction well. I appreciat...You summarized your instruction well. I appreciate the helpful ideas.larainydayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729238864057667317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-83708275512322404072010-05-08T12:14:05.615-07:002010-05-08T12:14:05.615-07:00Some very good advice here. Thank you so much for ...Some very good advice here. Thank you so much for sharing.<br /><br />XXSuzanne Ross Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08561888635304578484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-67694538113054754472010-05-07T13:09:37.769-07:002010-05-07T13:09:37.769-07:00Thank you Bazza! I must look out for that book by ...Thank you Bazza! I must look out for that book by John Braine.joanne foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-4805193064052256542010-05-07T10:31:41.584-07:002010-05-07T10:31:41.584-07:00Hi Joanne. This is a very useful post. Perhaps you...Hi Joanne. This is a very useful post. Perhaps you could write a book on this subject!<br />I read a book by John Braine (author of Room At The Top) about writing novels. His top tip? Write what you know.bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-12427873225838536672010-05-04T00:36:17.419-07:002010-05-04T00:36:17.419-07:00Thank you all for your comments. Yes Helen it was ...Thank you all for your comments. Yes Helen it was a very interesting day and I am really feeling the benefit of it now I have a few free days to concentrate on writing up some of those ideas from the workshop.<br /><br />Old Kitty, I hope your tutor's report is helpful and maybe it will be better than you expect.<br /><br />Pen and Paints - I think your excuse (about writing, not talking) is brilliant!<br /><br />Joanna, I really love your idea about enlarging memories like photographs so we can look at them in more detail. Also being more 'elastic' in your use of memories - that's a good way to put it. I need to be more elastic myself.joanne foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-16626664635842934212010-05-03T23:26:34.233-07:002010-05-03T23:26:34.233-07:00This sounds like a really constructive day and tha...This sounds like a really constructive day and thank you, Joanne, for sharing it with us. It brings home the importance of recalling tiny snippets of our lives and then letting them take shape in different ways. It just shows how a small memory can be enlarged like a favourite photograph. I used to think it was a drawback for me that I was enthusiastic about delving into the past all the time. I've never made many plans for the future and tend to dwell on 'old times' rather a lot. When I was little, my favourite pastime was asking my mother about how she lived when she was small. Now that I write, I can see how useful it is to draw an memories. But I need to make them more elastic, so that I can create different sorts of stories with them.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10346863303904973315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-17451102981521721922010-05-03T15:04:14.006-07:002010-05-03T15:04:14.006-07:00Hi Joanne
I'm glad you enjoyed the workshop a...Hi Joanne<br /><br />I'm glad you enjoyed the workshop and thanks for sharing the experience. <br />I am terrible at thinking on the spot, I'll have creative answers some time later, my excuse is 'I write, I don't talk!'penandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273388732451042663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-54899382393166926842010-05-03T13:28:11.523-07:002010-05-03T13:28:11.523-07:00That sounds really interesting. Glad you got so m...That sounds really interesting. Glad you got so much out of it.HelenMWaltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182100572365505905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4752133508404720649.post-46745815687674658422010-05-03T10:51:17.843-07:002010-05-03T10:51:17.843-07:00Hi
Wow. Thank you for these pointers. I especiall...Hi<br /><br />Wow. Thank you for these pointers. I especially like this headline "there's more than one way to skin a sausage"! :-)<br /><br />They are all really good to remember too. I like how you use the butterfly incident to illustrate these and I'm trying to think of one too for myself that I could use to illustrate all these pointers. <br /><br />And non-fiction writing for me is harder than it looks. I just finished this section of my writing course and it was quite difficult to keep a 2000 word piece of non-fiction interesting and lively. I'm still waiting for my tutor's report on it but I really don't have high hopes! <br /><br />I'm off to check the wonderful Sophie King's website now. <br /><br />p.s glad you had a great workshop and what a place to have it in!<br /><br />Take care<br />xOld Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185547869183611159noreply@blogger.com