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Hello hello Recently, I sent you an email with this photo of writers NOT having a beastly time: I mentioned that I'm running a one-day course later this month. Some who replied said that, alas, the date doesn't work. I hope you won't mind if I trouble your inbox with details of an alternative (below). ​ Instead of a one-day intensive, you can join me and the sensational Alice Jolly over five weeks. I've run Arvon residential courses with Alice several times now, and it's always been terrific, not beastly. You'll be glad to hear she's won major prizes for fiction and non-fiction. Alice is pictured here (in my customary hyperreal illustration style) alongside me and two writers we met on an Arvon course: ​ ​ The Five Week Writing CourseEvenings (UK), Monday May 20th - Tuesday June 18th 2024 See this Arvon course description page. ​ Thanks for reading. JPF ​ ​ ​ |
John-Paul Flintoff
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📖 7 Books in 16 languages 📚 including: How To Change The World A Modest Book About How To Make An Adequate Speech.
Hello hello! Yesterday, I spent a whole therapy session talking about a book proposal I'm trying to write. It was quite helpful, actually. (To be clear: I'm not a psychotherapist. I was the client / patient.) This is the monthly newsletter from John-Paul FlintoffYou can unsubscribe any time, using the link below The book I want to write is about interviews. Not about dialogue, as such, but about what happens when dialogue is shared with some kind of audience. That's what makes it an...
Greetings Reader Have you stopped on a pavement, recently, to take a whiff of a neighbour's lilac? I recommend it. I wish you could smell the one on Crewys Road, between me and Childs Hill Park. It looks a bit like this: Ink, pencil and pen on A3 textured 250gsm paper. In other news: Using pictures to develop stories. I asked a recent International Booker Prize winner if I could do his portrait, along the lines of this one. He seems willing. Magnolia prints now available. (These prints are -...
Hello Reader Until you attempt to describe a still image, using actual words, it doesn't really mean much. Or, to put that the other way around: by describing a picture - actually choosing words and uttering them or writing them down - you can't avoid finding stories in it. I recorded a short video about this (see below), at the request of Helen at Arvon, to drum up interest in the upcoming online writing course. In the video you can see examples of the to-and-fro of words and pictures...