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Hello, my name is Lauran and I am a pretty rubbish creative writer.

I love it, obviously, but compared to analysis and non-fiction writing, it’s definitely a weak spot for me.
I’ve been working really hard on this, and thought I’d share how:

I’ve been reading a lot of anthologies and collections this year due to a lack of time to give novels.
I came across Michael Kimball, who writes beautiful postcards about people’s lives.
I came across this one about a chair, and it got me thinking about lives of other objects..

So I started practising, and turns out this way into a narrative works pretty well, especially when you consider poor classroom objects (coveted glue sticks that slowly watch themselves die, or sad and abused bic biros, or the underside of tables coated in gum).
I made this...

to use with students for us to plan the lives of objects.
It’s shaken up the typical ideas we get (murders/stalkers/film plots). You can also use the AQA images/prompts to get started (the fruit market one is great fun) and there’s so many opportunities to develop vocab/SPaG.

I know a lot of you are amazing creative writers, but recognising weak spots is so important and I just wanted to ramble on and share something that worked! Thanks for reading https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💕" title="Zwei Herzen" aria-label="Emoji: Zwei Herzen">