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Creative writing in a hurry requires ideas and sometimes the pressure of examinations or need/desire to ‘produce’ a story kills off our creative flow!Lists though, can save us all!Give yourself a TITLE– in this case below- ” A significant meeting.”Then an ALLOTTED TIME OF 5-10 minutes.CREATE A LIST OF PHRASES and IDEAS in SEQUENCE- CHRONOLOGICAL?YOU HAVE THE INGREDIENTS OF A STORY!
- A dark November morning.
- The clocks had altered.
- Lost my trusted watch. Felt oddly out of time.
- Rain seemed sharp.
- Almost too wide awake?
- Musty smell as I climbed on the bus. No one waving. Everyone slumped dozing except me.
- Steamy windows. Words scribbled on them seemed to make no sense.
- The bus crowded with damp human beings at 7-30am.
- Smell of shampoo and then something odd.
- Patchouli oil on a leather bag a woman with crimson nails.
- Woman carrying the bag very closely.
- Her name embosssed on the leather handle.
- Evangeline Markham.
- Secretive.
- Reading a book with gilt letters and that strange smell again as if something escaping as she reads.
- One eye different colour than the other.
- Restless feet.
- Some thing stirring in the bag.
- As if it liked being read to?
- The bus journey went on and on.
- Time stretching out so the woman can read to the hidden, murmuring creature.
- As she reads, the sound in the bag is increasing.
- Humming. Music starts to make the letters on the window make sense.
- I can read the message.
- It’s my future name. My destiny.
- With a date!
