The Coffeehouse Writer

Why join a writing group?

Belonging to a writing group is about taking strength from that group and giving it back.

Woooh we’re halfway there! Can you believe it’s June already? It seems like it was only last week I was putting the Christmas decorations away and desperately searching for the perfect year planner. Now it’s halfway through the year. So how are those targets coming along? I’m happy to hold my hand up and admitContinueContinue reading “How’s the ‘big plan’ going?i”

We Are Writers

We are writers. Believing in the magic of the written word. Knowing and understanding the power those words carry. We write to escape this world and enter another, to capture lost moments and remember loved times. We craft and create, we twist, and we turn. Entwining passion with adventure and purpose. Fusing lives that anywhereContinueContinue reading “We Are Writers”

What Next? 7 Tips to find what you should do next?

Finished! Well I thought I had finally ended my academic life as a student when I recently submitted my Major Project for my Ma in Writing for Script and Screen. The next week I returned to teaching feeling accomplished.Not only had I, as in me, completed a Masters but I had written a feature lengthContinueContinue reading “What Next? 7 Tips to find what you should do next?”

Starting January 2019

learn to write with a beginners creative writing course.

Motivating new writers.

Excuses range from their reading is not good enough, or they didn’t do well at school. Some believe that no-one would want to read their story but most lack the confidence to show their work to others, even loved ones.

”We need to talk…”

As a writer, I create characters every day. I think in glorious technicolour and now 4K how they would look and behave. I think in a volume of how they would sound through a beautiful Bose system, while as a creative writing teacher, I give examples of how to bring them to live. I useContinueContinue reading “”We need to talk…””

Who? What? Why? When?

Active Questions- Creswick (2016) Director and Writer Natalie Erika James; Writer – Christian White – Available online at <https://vimeo.com/157958148> Accessed on 1 st May 2018 Creswick is the story of a young woman helping pack up her father’s home, while both have the strange feeling they are not alone. The active questions come soon; WhoseContinueContinue reading “Who? What? Why? When?”

Sneaky Speak.

Sneaky Pete (2015) Directed Seth Gordon; Written by David Shore and Brian Cranston. This is crime drama that Amazon keeps adding to my time line, so I thought would give in to peer pressure and watch it. Pete and Marius are in prison, Marius a ‘confidence’ man is getting parole, while Pete won’t be sleeping inContinueContinue reading “Sneaky Speak.”

Words can Kill – The use of Dialogue

For this review, time was of an essence, so I watched a short ( and for those who are not aware sign up to http://www.shortoftheweek.com for some amazing short films. https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/04/18/writers-workshop/ Writer’s Workshop (2018) is an 11 minute dark comedy written and directed by Ryan Frances Johnson about Jeremy an aspiring writer attending a writersContinueContinue reading “Words can Kill – The use of Dialogue”