WRITERS’ CIRCLES
MAKE DO AND MEND
We’ve all got discarded scraps of writing. Patch it up in these writing group exercises from Julie Phillips
Julie Phillips
It’s all too tempting to race ahead and start writing something new, even when there are several other halffinished writing projects on the go. But for one reason or another those other half-finished projects have left you feeling less than enthusiastic, so you toss them aside like an old smartphone in favour of the all-singingand-dancing new bit of tech.
It doesn’t have to be this way. A bit of cutting and pasting, and project fusion is the way forward. This month we’re looking at falling back in love with your old, neglected writing projects, alongside your new projects, and finding the beauty and excitement in them again. So it’s time to ask your new shiny project to budge up on your desk and make room for your old projects as you dust them off and reimagine them.