by Teesdale Writers | May 29, 2026 | thoughts on writing
New to creative writing? You might think you don’t have the skills to craft a novel, but you do. It’s partly a matter of expectations. Down in the south of England, houses are made of… well, bricks. Neatly laid in regular courses, with no unusual sections. Those...
by Teesdale Writers | May 5, 2026 | thoughts on writing
‘Show them don’t tell them’ was a point brought up and discussed at our latest coffee meeting in the charming Moments café this month, and although I hadn’t heard it said before, it encapsulated some thinking that I had about my long talked about yet under-written...
by Teesdale Writers | Apr 14, 2026 | thoughts on writing, writing prompts
If you look out for red items, you will see a lot of red. More generally, we have a tendency to see what we go looking for, guided by our interests, opinions and dispositions. Might the same be true in relation to small potential story-prompts? One day, waiting to...
by Teesdale Writers | Jan 20, 2026 | thoughts on writing
A writing project for 2026 (and 2027) Over the last month or so, I’ve been thinking about which of my ideas I’d like to develop in 2026. At the beginning of 2025 I was writing a dystopian novella, but decided to leave it to one side and concentrate on something...
by Teesdale Writers | Dec 30, 2025 | thoughts on writing
I haven’t done much writing this month. Again. But it’s not really my fault. You see, I have a bit of a problem with dragons. There are five of them in my study. They’re procrastination dragons, and it’s taking me a long time to get them trained....
by Teesdale Writers | Sep 17, 2025 | thoughts on writing
As a writer of travel memoirs I recognise that we look at things with varying levels of percipience. We interpret what we see with varying levels of reflectiveness. From my own experience of writing about travel, I have compiled the following questions or travel: no...