Plansters The Literary Community live writing class covered organic writing, Pansters (by the seat of) like me and Planning (Plot). Before joining up, I had thought there was only one way: A to Z via B and C, and it held me back for yonks. Because I don’t know my origins, having been abandoned and spending my first two years in Hong Kong orphanages, I felt I couldn’t get out of the blocks. Many people enquiring about my past have encouraged me to get the story down; the first overseas adoptions to the UK in the 50s and 60s and our ground breaking, if somewhat eccentric, experiences. I don’t do straight lines; personality-wise, I’m all over the place, pinging off in all directions. It was a revelation that I’m not alone and some very successful writers are happy to fly this way. Louise Doughty of Apple Tree Yard and Crossfire fame creates from a single striking scene and develops a story around it. In a previous class, she suggested that Chapter One didn’t have to begin at the beginning; I could start in the middle. So I did and I haven’t stopped since. I now have a stream of consciousness anecdotes bubbling forth daily which I’m using to commit to the #100 Days of Writing Challenge that I have often started but never once completed. I’m practising in the same way I taught myself watercolour painting during Lockdown – posting the results and, hopefully, the progress on social media. At some point I’ll get it in some kind of order, chronologically, perhaps, or not. Imagine applying PRINCE2 principles? Project Management. Gordon Bennett, that will make me a Planster. #writing #book #booklover #creativewriting #RamblingOn #MindNinja #ChinWag #Cl-airBrush #memories #memoir #100daysofwriting #journaling #plan #plot #prince2 #projectmanagement #project https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIPbamIy9k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
