Postcards Home

You want to write your own story, the little pieces of you.

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There are six essays in Postcards Home. Essays will go live every Monday from 12am, British Summer Time. If you are not in my time zone, kindly wait until your equivalent of 12am and the essay will be waiting for you. The essays will stay online for a month after the course end date.

If at any point you would like to navigate between essays that are already live and look back over it, you can use the Contents table below, where each essay is linked.

Sometimes people ask if they can please have an essay or two sent to them early because they are travelling or on holiday or want to read it on their flight. I’m so sorry I’m unable to fulfil these requests, due to the way in which the course is scheduled online to run through my website. If you are going on holiday or know in advance that you will be without internet access please wait until you have internet access again in order to catch up with the course in your own time.

If you have any questions related to Postcards Home whilst the course is running, feel free to use the submit a question button in the course menu (in the top right hand side). I will collect any questions sent in and, if relevant, reply to everyone in the group at the end of each week with my thoughts, so that everyone can benefit.

Thank you!

Contents

 
  • Essay one: the importance of looking backwards, in order to look forwards.

  • Essay two: the writer’s art of note-taking.

  • Essay three: Learning to look for details to bring your writing alive.

  • Essay Four: Looking for what is both in and out of focus for writing prompts.

  • Essay five: giving yourself permission to write about your everyday.

  • Essay six: From postcards to vignettes to blogs, books and beyond, set your writing free.

 

Postcards Home