![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emma is also a musician, artist, and proud Sagittarius. In 2019, her short fiction was shortlisted in a UK writing contest. What it is that makes you want to tell stories and write them down. And I want it on this subject: WHY I WRITE. I’m asking for a 1000 word essay (meaning, blog post). Today, I’m not asking for 1000 words of fiction. Her work has appeared in Filling Station and is forthcoming in Planisphere Quarterly and the anthology “Framework of the Human Body” by Bell Press. Today’s Flash Fiction Writing Challenge Is Not About Fiction You read that right. Creativity is defined as the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work the ability to CREATE. As Pablo Picasso supposedly once said: “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”įor more information, and to register (as space is limited), please call the Pictou Library at (902) 485-5021.Įmma Května is a Canadian writer and poet with Czech roots, currently living in Nova Scotia on the traditional unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. CREATIVITY IS THE KEY This challenge is for those who want to work on writing new ideas and who would like to maintain a continuous creativity flow with your writing. We’ll be examining these cross-section points and boundary lines, asking ourselves why is that boundary there? Does it serve my writing? Is it actually helpful in giving me guidance/structure or is in inhibiting me? And we’ll discuss alternative ways to write and how to bend or break the rules of writing. These are things that may lead us to believe we have to write a certain way, or feel we’re supposed to write about particular subjects, but really we know deep down it just doesn’t feel right! We’ll be identifying the edges of the box that we’re in with our art, the invisible boundaries that we believe we can’t cross. Join this group coaching workshop where we’ll talk about the ‘rules’ of writing and things we’ve learnt, heard or seen in our writing life that we now have ingrained into us. ![]()
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