Pebble Beach Writing5 days ago1 minFriday writing prompt.Interruptions. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Sometimes this quote (attributed to Napoleon) will apply very well...
Pebble Beach WritingMay 61 minFriday writing promptThe 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...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 291 minFriday writing promptAll 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...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 221 minNot telling the truth.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...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 151 minFriday writing promptEaster 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...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 81 minFriday writing promptPlay. 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...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 81 minApril NewsWe have two new courses starting in Brighton in May. Susanna will be teaching Writing from Life, a six-week course, and Friday Writing...
Pebble Beach WritingApr 31 minFriday writing promptLook 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...
Pebble Beach WritingMar 251 minFriday writing prompt...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...
Pebble Beach WritingMar 181 minFriday writing promptREFUGE Use one of the pictures below to write about a person seeking and finding refuge.
Pebble Beach WritingFeb 181 minFriday writing promptA 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...
Pebble Beach WritingFeb 172 minOn editing your own writingYou'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...
Pebble Beach WritingFeb 121 minFebruary newsSusanna will be teaching a new WRITING A NOVEL course in Brighton from Saturday 5th March. The venue is the lovely St Augustine's Arts...
Pebble Beach WritingFeb 111 minFriday writing promptSomewhere in the boxes below is a mystery. What and whose is it? What happens to the box?
Pebble Beach WritingFeb 41 minFriday writing promptWaiting. What do our characters reveal about themselves when they're waiting? How does time work in fiction or a poem in a situation...
Pebble Beach WritingJan 211 minFriday writing promptAll this talk of finally getting back to normal. What's normal? Write the story of one of these pictures. For a hard-core challenge,...
Pebble Beach WritingJan 141 minFriday writing promptThe images are everywhere in January: beautiful beaches and turquoise skies, swimsuits, cocktails, sun loungers and gleaming skin. It's...
Pebble Beach WritingDec 17, 20211 minFriday writing promptTHE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY Sadly they had to cancel the Christmas party that year. What happened instead?
Pebble Beach WritingDec 12, 20212 minA Sense of CommunityPebble Beach Writing grew out of a series of free writing sessions Susanna gave last year during the winter lockdown. The weekly online...