For those of you who missed it, the Write for a Reason Challenge was to write a short story (3-5,000 words) for a specific child of your choice, on the theme of new beginnings. The challenge wasn’t just to write the story, but to give it to your chosen child to read. Writers had about ten weeks to write their story, get the children to review it, and send both to me.
The idea was . . .
The first time I made curtains I was a student in a rented bedsit. I had a massive bay window overlooking a fabulous garden, but the curtains were musty, old and a bit ragged around the edges. So I decided to make some new ones. Well, it’s a good thing there’s no such thing as curtain police! The finished result was . . .
I don’t know about you, but I sometimes find it difficult to get motivated to do anything creative in the winter months. The days are short and dark, wet, windy and cold, and at this point in the calendar it seems to have been like this forever. There’s no colour around in the gardens and everything seems so dull and grey.
Of course, winter will pass and spring will soon be here (anyone got any daffodils out yet?), but I just wanted to encourage you to keep going with your writing this month. (If you’re reading this in warmer climes, ah, enjoy!)
So here’s the idea to keep motivated . . .
