Finding your Creative You – Workshop Jan 22nd 2012

Wish you were more creative? We all have moments where we need to find an original thought and all our minds can come up with is a version of something we have read or heard. So how do we tap into the new, the fresh, the imaginative and the original thoughts and ideas? The secret is stopping the endless chatter of the mind and making space for your creative you to be heard. Imagine me Creative are holding a series...

Tea for Two

She lost all sense of time, Of  knowing, of purpose, of truth.  A piece of pale driftwood Floating in a wild sea of uncertainty.  She who was me.                         Quote :Triumph of Joy Penned years ago, during a time of great despair – these words have drawn me back to them. We live in such uncertain times. Each day the world offers up fresh challenges.  Human beings are...

Manly Daily Write Up of Davidson High Creative Writing Workshop

quoted from – Manly Daily Saturday September 21st 2011 @Davidson High  Local author Alice Flanagan held a creative writers’ workshop for 60 year 7 to year 10 students at Davidson High School. The focus was to get past writer’s block and get a “rollicking good story”, Ms Flanagan said. One challenge was learning to structure a good story in an interesting, informative and fun way. The...

Imagine me Creative Workshop at Davidson High

I was recently invited to run the ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop at Davidson High on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop is a creative writing course designed to give students practical techniques for tapping into their creative side and ‘catching’ imaginative and inspired stories. The day started with a buzz of activity as the 60 young writers filed into the room. Facilitated...

Independent Publishing in the Workplace

Whether or not you think of yourself as a writer the chances are you ‘independently publish’ on a daily basis and just don’t realise it. Most people in the workplace regularly communicate through writing whether it be email, a business proposal, a letter or even a sign on the notice board. The thing is, many of us ‘publish’ but few of us give our ‘publication’ a quality check before sending it out....