Swaffham and District

Welcome to the Creative Writing Group page!  The meetings will last approximately 2 hours including a break for refreshments to fuel our creative ideas. 

At each meeting, we will discuss the pieces of work we have written and submitted by email during the previous month, and decide which theme/topic to write about over the next month for the following meeting. 

An example of themes could be a cafe scene, a story around a picture or postcard, or finding unusual words in the dictionary and incorporating them into a story. Another idea could be for each member to write a piece of dialogue for a character in a short play, in fact we have done just that for the Playscript Reading group. 
There are many more ideas and topics to explore. Each member can take it in turns to choose the theme or we can experiment so that we have fun with our new-found creativity. It doesn’t matter if there are grammar or spelling errors, as the point of the group is to be creative. We will all bring different experience, strengths and ideas to the group, and we can discuss what we want to achieve as we go along. 
An agreed word limit will be set for each piece. We sometimes produce a Drabble - a specific number of words e.g. 100 can be a fun challenge. We have also worked on a specific “starter” to see how we could develop it. 
For more information contact Mike Upton Venue: in members homes Cost: contribution to refreshments

Coming soon: Creative Writing 2