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“What you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations.” Saul Steinberg

You can’t teach someone how to write but you can help them create the right circumstances for writing to happen. Creative writing workshops helped me to develop voice and introduce play into my writing process.

"Hitch your unconscious to your writing hand." Dorothea Brande

I am interested in the processes of writing and creativity as well as their products.

I run creative writing workshops (see News for details) that focus on exercises designed to unlock new angles on the material people want to write about. My workshops are less about sentence structure, grammar, language and style and more about finding unusual, fresh ways of seeing things (with all five senses) and developing innovative ways of getting that new eye, ear and nose into words and onto the page. I have designed a series of exercises using Objects, Photographs, Mindmaps, free-writing exercises, discussion and the questioning of our writing process.

"I write to find out what I think." Joan Didion

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Comments from workshop participants:

"Probably the most useful course I have ever attended… This was a roller-coaster ride involving mind-mapping, research techniques, spontaneous writing exercises and lively class interaction. If anyone is still ‘blocked’ after the quiet whirlwind that is a Rebecca Loncraine class, maybe writing is not really what they want to do." Priscilla

"Divergent thinking leads to creative writing. Let Rebecca’s workshops show you how." DFB

"Rebecca’s course helped me to look at my writing in new ways in particular with the use of my senses. Many of the exercises we did showed me new ways to trigger inspiration and flow of words. Sharing photos and objects with others made me analyse again memories and experiences of the past." Marianne

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