List six objects you remember from childhood… Life Listing exercise, a great starter-off. To see the whole of it, click here for the link to my teachingcreativewriting blog. It features a termly freebie class exercise from the Matrix book, and an archive of others.

Yes, September! Back-to-school, back to planning creative writing classes. Pleased to say that the paperback full of exercises & ideas is now half-price, £7.00. The e-version is even less. Get writing, get planning.

Click here for Creative Writing: the Matrix paperback available only in UK. Or click here for Creative Writing: the Quick Matrix ebook version of selected goodies from the print book, available worldwide.