A Swiss comedian said recently, to be creative you’ve got to go up the mountain. His explanation was that creativity isn’t a skill you acquire by working hard at it, but has to do with inspiration. For him, the best place for inspiration is on a mountain top.

Not all of us have access to a mountain, but there is certainly a place where we can find inspiration or, should one say, inspiration can find us, maybe in the woods, at the seaside or out on a lake.

The other side of the coin is the business of ‘translating’ an inspiration into words, putting it down on paper – in a way that adequately expresses what we so deeply feel. This is where the acquisition of skills for good writing comes in. Writing techniques don’t fall from heaven, they are learned. I will be developing teaching materials to facilitate that learning process.

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