📖 7 Books in 16 languages 📚 including: How To Change The World A Modest Book About How To Make An Adequate Speech.
Having a beastly time, or not | JPF MONTHLY
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Hello Reader Do these people look as if they’re having a beastly time?
They were participants on an online writing course with the Arvon Foundation. Later this month, I’m running another Arvon course. This time it’s concentrated into a single day. You’ll discover creative ways to develop your stories – to bring people and settings to life, and play with narrative structures. As if that wasn’t enough, you also get the chance to meet the editor of my latest book, Elizabeth Neep, a fountain of wisdom and kindness who happens also to work as editorial director at DK. If you want to have a good time AND finesse your writing talents – or if you know someone else who’d like that – well, you can find out more here: ​Online Writing Day: Non-Fiction​
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John-Paul Flintoff
Hello!, thanks for popping in. I'm a writer, illustrator and performer.
📖 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...