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In April 2017 I was privileged to be invited by Sonia and David Elton to be Writer in Residence at the Walled Garden Baumber and run a series of creative writing workshops in this inspirational setting. I enjoyed a balmy summer working with creative and talented people, many of whom were new to creative writing, and I am delighted to be able to showcase some of the work they produced in this anthology. #amwriting #Writingcourses #tedstanley #shortstories #books

Talking about Hammond House anthologies and Billboard TV with literary correspondent, Sarah Hunter- Carson http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rf3b3 #amwriting #writingcompetitions

A new session of these popular workshops starts on Thursday 3rd August 2017 MORE DETAILS I'm really enjoying Ted Stanley’s Creative Writing Course. It’s challenging, stimulating, interesting, and good fun.' ‘The tips for generating story ideas are brilliant.' 'The two-hour session flies by. Can't believe four of the six classes have gone already. I hope more are planned in the pipeline?’ 'Can we write it? Yes, we can. Inspiring, helpful, extremely intensive ( Phew!) course.

Despite the miserable weather, the Walled Garden looked beautiful today, the plants and trees refreshed by the recent rain. As we snuggled down in Sonia's woolly blankets with a hot cuppa from the cafe, the creative juices soon started to flow. Today we looked at the structure of stories including the three-act structure. We considered the elements that should be included in Act 1 and worked on the openings of the stories we had chosen from last week's exercise in generating

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It's week one of our six weekly workshops at the beautiful walled garden on the Staunton House Estate at Baumber. This week we looked at ten great ways to find inspiration for stories. Everyone went away buzzing with new ideas to work on during the week . In week two we will look at how to put these ideas into a professional story structure, starting with act 1 of the traditional three act structure. Look out for our one day courses on Writing for Children, Writing Life Sto

I spent a rewarding morning yesterday in the tranquil conservatory of the beautiful Walled Garden, Baumber with a lively and interesting bunch of people on our taster session for the creative writing course. We discussed the benefits of creative writing for health and wellbeing and designed our favourite dinner party menu, decided where we would hold it and who we would invite. We noticed that everyone had chosen a three-course menu and related this to the traditional three-a