{"id":214,"date":"2008-09-22T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-09-22T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:22:57","slug":"the-kraken-wakes-and-hears-some-fine-story-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The Kraken Wakes – and hears some fine story ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!<\/p>\n

Yep, ’tis I, fresh sprung from my slumbers. No kidding about my previous post’s ‘Sam sleep now’: Phase Three<\/strong>‘s first draft must have left me more knackered than I thought because for the last two weeks I’ve been racking up about eleven hours’ kip a night! But today I snapped awake for my first school visit of the new academic year – namely a return<\/a> to St Augustine’s<\/a> in Kilburn, London, for what were my second and third<\/a> creative writing workshops, ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I’m still a little hesitant about workshops: I don’t like books and stories to be always associated with ‘work’. But the imagination of some of the Year 10 students in these sessions was a thrill to witness. It wouldn’t be right for me to tell you the best ideas I heard – they belong to their creators. Here are just two standout sentences to give you a flavour.<\/p>\n

The first is simple yet chilling:<\/p>\n

“She was alive but she was rotten inside.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the second…<\/p>\n

“On the bus he reached down for his ticket – and found that his trousers had vanished.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today’s sessions were a bit, um, experimental<\/em> in places on my part(!!) so my particular thanks to the staff and students I saw today. I hope you got something out of listening to me, because I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! Yep, ’tis I, fresh sprung from my slumbers. No kidding about my previous post’s ‘Sam sleep now’: Phase Three‘s first draft must have left me more knackered than I thought because for the last two weeks I’ve been racking up about eleven hours’ kip a night! But today I snapped awake for my first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}