Creative Writing 101

Our experiences (and our memory of them) give us our identity and are the great reward from a life lived. Writing can take many forms but it's always about transforming experience, reflection and insight into treasure forever. In a fast-changing world, writing your life-review, memoir, family-history, becoming a diarist or blogger for the first time in your life... can be an important gift to yourself as well as a priceless inheritance for family and friends. Or perhaps you know you have a novel in you, or want to gather and shape your collection of short stories or personal essays, or have delayed until now that non-fiction treatise or meditation in your area of expertise or passion. Unlike ballet, writing is an ambition and art that favours age, and many successful authors (eg. America's Harriet Doerr) don't turn to the page until 70 and beyond, and yet they still get their body-of-work out there.