Family holidays

Apr 092013

IWC Beth andMichelle

One of the joys of the Itinerant Writers Club is the glimpses one gets into other writers’ lives. Our monthly assignment 11, “A family holiday” produced some emotive and characterful writing. With instructions for this exercise to “pare down” the prose, to keep it tight, we were asked to remove all adjectives and adverbs then replace only those which were essential. Two of the essays struck me as particularly good, so I am sharing them here.

If you would like to see the rest of the essays, click Itinerant Writers Club or use the tab at the top of this page and scroll through to assignment 11. While you are there, you might like to wander through some of the other exercises.

Sheldrake Press travel writing competition: Itinerant Writers Club sweeps the board

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Apr 182012

Back in February Sheldrake Press launched a writing competition…

“Sheldrake Press, publishers of the Wild Guides, are running a travel writing competition this month. Share one of your wild travel experiences with us for a chance to be published on our web-site and win a set of guides to Italy, Britain and Ireland. Whether you have discovered a new spot or returned to an old favourite, we’d like to hear about it.” Continue reading »

IWC Assignment 2: Along the dusty road by Aidan Williams

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Apr 062012

Every month I select one of the stories from our Itinerant Writers Club assignments to highlight on the blog. Each story must be no more than 500 words and must follow a theme. The theme for March was “On the road”. Here Aidan Williams tells us about his journey from Vietnam to Cambodia.

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IWC Assignment 1: Thira by Helen Moat

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Mar 192012

Every month I select one of the stories from our Itinerant Writers Club assignments to highlight on the blog. Each story must be no more than 500 words and must follow a theme. The theme for February was, appropriately for our first assignment, “First steps”. Here Helen Moat tells us about her journey to Santorini.

The Writing Competition

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Dec 132011

WIN MEMBERSHIP OF THE ITINERANT WRITERS CLUB

The Itinerant Writers Club
The two main reasons for setting up this website were to meet other like-minded people and improve my writing skills. If you live in a house, flat, bungalow or palace – or anywhere in one place – the chances are somewhere not too far from you there will be a ‘creative writing group’ where you’ll be able to attend regular meetings and submit writing exercises for feedback. But what if you live on a boat, in a camper van or out of a backpack – or anywhere that never stays still? Where can you hone your skills in the company of other would-be writers if you’re a rolling stone?

And all for free.