Tag: writing exercise
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Slow Writing: The Unfortunate Alchemist
And then, at the very moment that Charles had thought he’d cracked it, the crockpot began to smoke quite disconcertingly. Who would have thought alchemic enlightenment could be so evasive? For poor Charles, the process was yet a veritable maze of dead ends, trapdoors and coal cellars. To think that he’d held the secret in […]
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Slow Writing for a Slow Friday
It wasn’t just a book; it wasn’t like any book I’d seen before, anyway. The secret (if you could call it that) was a short line of writing on the inside back cover, under the flyleaf. Lifting the stiff, faded paper, you could see the faint scrawl and just make out what it said. Go […]
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Slow Writing on Sunny Monday
There was nothing unusual about Alan Pearce – he ate breakfast, he liked golf; perfectly normal. Rocking the boat wasn’t in a day’s work for Alan Pearce and he liked to keep to a fairly strict schedule in life. But what happened to Alan Pearce just wasn’t normal, not even nearly normal in fact. Like […]
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Monday Morning Words
“Don’t go down there”, she warned; “Don’t go down there ever, my boy.” I was two-thirds ready to heed her when I suddenly realised where I’d heard her voice before. The inn at Milton Abbas – the twisted crone with no fresh lemon slices! I turned to the woman and bellowed, “Oh, down there you […]
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Slow Writing
And thus it ended. The teacher, in all his faded and battered majesty, was dead. Killed by living, too many years of chalk-dusted breaths in and out. Slowly crumbling like a collapsed stack of old hymn books in some forgotten attic. Poor, forgotten man. He died even as he lived and he lived quietly while […]
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