Interruptions. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Sometimes this quote (attributed to Napoleon) will apply very well...

The water is wide, I cannot get o'er And neither have I wings to fly The water's surface is is the threshold. What lies beyond or...

All around my hat... Pick a hat and use it to find your way into a character and a story. What's the story of how this person got the...

It just seemed topical this week for some reason. Anyway, someone in each of these pictures isn't telling the truth. What's the lie and...

Easter bunny? Hm. We're not sure either but there's definitely a story behind this moment and something still to come. Who is inside the...

Play. Sometimes it's good to turn off the word count, lock your inner editor in a dark cupboard and start to play. Pick a photo or two to...

We have two new courses starting in Brighton in May. Susanna will be teaching Writing from Life, a six-week course, and Friday Writing...

Look up. We often forget to pay attention to what's going on above us but you can find whole worlds and new stories up there to draw down...

Spring Forward Fall Back. The clocks go forward this weekend and we lose an hour. What might have happened in the lost hour? Use one or...

REFUGE Use one of the pictures below to write about a person seeking and finding refuge.

A long walk.

A story from the moon and bit and pieces.Use the elements below to create an atmospheric scene or story (or a novel?) with layers of...

You've got your draft and now you come to edit it. The problem is that you've been looking at the same words over and over for so long...

Susanna will be teaching a new WRITING A NOVEL course in Brighton from Saturday 5th March. The venue is the lovely St Augustine's Arts...

Somewhere in the boxes below is a mystery. What and whose is it? What happens to the box?

Waiting. What do our characters reveal about themselves when they're waiting? How does time work in fiction or a poem in a situation...

All this talk of finally getting back to normal. What's normal? Write the story of one of these pictures. For a hard-core challenge,...

The images are everywhere in January: beautiful beaches and turquoise skies, swimsuits, cocktails, sun loungers and gleaming skin. It's...

THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY Sadly they had to cancel the Christmas party that year. What happened instead?

Pebble Beach Writing grew out of a series of free writing sessions Susanna gave last year during the winter lockdown. The weekly online...