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Why Homer?
I do not speak or read Greek, I have never been to Greece, but I have grown up with, and still read retellings of the 2,500 year old story of the Trojan War. From a picture book given me for Christmas when I was five, right through the Adele Geras’ excellent Troy, the Iliad has…
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One Finger Typing
Family history has a bit of a geeky image, and I won’t pretend it doesn’t have its fair share of anoraks, but it is also a deep and rich mine for good stories. I first got interested when my partner’s father died and we came across his genealogy research, which infuriated me because it only…
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Five Films in Eight Days
Okay, I admit it, I’m a Cinema Enthusiast, a Film Buff, a Movie Geek … choose your epiphet; I’m one of those people who stay to watch the credits and not just for the Pixar ‘out-takes’. And if you are wondering why I’m going on about films skip to the final paragraph and find out.…
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Dark and Stormy
Dark & Stormy A Halloween piece … Winter, spicy gingerbread, slavery and marriage to an insanely jealous man … another exercise from WOOA, sparked off by not having got around to submitting anything on the Dark & Stormy theme to Liars’ League, and for once I didn’t come up with a story. I keep dark…
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Many Merry Mermaids
This is just a bit of nonsense, based on a writing exercise in which every word in a sentence must start with the same letter. Stops you using ‘the’ and ‘and’ and ‘I’ unless you are very clever, which I’m not… perhaps with a bit of practice! Many Merry Mermaids Many merry mermaids making mischief…
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The Memling Triptych, Sint Jans Hospitaal, Brugge.
I wrote this in 2007 as part of an essay on silence for my coaching course. I am now completely hooked on Memling and have written a story based on his pictures; Portrait of The Artist’s Model as a Young Woman. We’ve been walking around the museum for over 2 hours and now, this…
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My Life in Fairytales
I told stories before I could write. I mean proper stories, not fibs. My Mum is a writer and she told us stories every night to get us to go to sleep, she usually had characters who were a bit grumpy, I have vivid memories of lying in the lower bunk aged 3 or 4,…
Cherry Potts, Writer 