Category Archives: Writing and Poems

Characters & Characteristics

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Helen

A writers’ group exercise: Take a character from one list, and a characteristic from another. We had half an hour and this is what I came up with…

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Cam Girl

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Helen

The advantage of having a broken foot is that it has given me the ideal opportunity to get some writing done. I am re-visiting a book a wrote a few years ago, that now needs updating and re-editing. I’ve got … Continue reading →

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A Halloween Romance

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Helen

Competition time again at our writers’ group. I don’t know the results yet, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for this one. I should’ve posted this on Halloween, but I forgot! We were challenged to write a short story with … Continue reading →

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The Many Expressions of our dog, Ziggy.

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Helen

It’s 2am and I can’t sleep. Yesterday – well day before yesterday I suppose – morning our beloved dog Ziggy died suddenly of a heart attack while he was happily running up the hill towards us. To help me deal … Continue reading →

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“The first time I smelled that…”

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Helen

The little village of Pilton in Somerset has been home to many creative people, including authors such as Fay Weldon, John Le Carre and Guy Kennaway. Our writers’ group has been fortunate enough to have the company of Guy Kennaway … Continue reading →

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8th April 1994

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Helen

Another little thing I wrote at Writers’ Group this week. This time we were given the (potentially morbid) theme of suicide. We had half an hour to write, and this is what I did – the end is a bit … Continue reading →

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She married for love…

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Helen

Last week at writers’ group, Ruth gave the rest of us a little and very interesting lesson in prose poetry. Our homework challenge was to write a prose poem with the theme of ‘war’. I didn’t completely stick to Ruth’s … Continue reading →

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Stuck together

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Helen

Our Writers’ Group homework last week was to write about a situation where people get stuck together eg in a broken down lift. This was what I wrote…

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Gizmo

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Helen

  This is the name of our new kitten who joined us a month ago now. Can you tell why we called him that?! He’s the runt of a litter of persians and was half the size of his brothers … Continue reading →

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“Time”

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Helen

I am so chuffed to bits. I have just won first prize in my village Writers’ Group poetry competition! I won a pen with Pilton Writers engraved on it. I shall use it all the time!  Sadly, winning meant I … Continue reading →

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