Tag: Writing

YOUR LOVE STORY

Holding hands. This image illustrates the last writing exercise of the Wabb LAB Love.

The exercise Choose one scene you wrote during this lab. Read it once as a reader, not as the writer who knows what you meant.Pay attention to: Now revise the scene with a single aim: make it easier to read. Focus on: You may change sentences.You may change word choices.You may change emphasis. Parameters If […]

WHAT THEY DID TO PUSH LOVE AWAY

Image of couple after a fight. Used as an illustration to a writing exercise about a repeated behaviour that led to a break up.

WABB LAB – LOVE – DAY 5 Sometimes love ends because of repetition, not drama. The exercise Write a scene where a character realises:I pushed too hard. I waited too long. I didn’t listen. What to write Show: The other person may or may not be present. Rules Tip Image the situation in your head […]

TOO LATE

A person walking away. This images illustrates the writing exercise about someone realizing that they love someone too late

WABB LAB – DAY 4 – TOO LATE Sometimes love is recognised only after it’s gone. The exercise Write a scene where a character realises they have missed their moment. Choose one situation or come up with your own: What to write Focus on: Do not: Rules Tip! Regret is strongest when it’s quiet.

LOVE INTERRUPTED

two girls sitting on the bed receiving a phonecall. This image illustrates a love scene where two people ar eabout to get it on, but they are interrupted.

WABB LAB – LOVE – DAY 3 Love at first sight may sound fabulous, but if they find each other straight away, the story will be over soon. That’s why in storytelling we always need to postpone the end result whether you are writing literature, comedy, drama or theatre. The exercise Write a scene where […]

OPPOSITES ATTRACT

WABB LAB – LOVE – DAY 2 Opposite characters give endless opportunities to write any kind of story and they work great in love stories too! People don’t fall in love because they are similar.They fall in love because something works despite their differences. The exercise Create two characters who are very different. Choose two […]

LOVE IN TIMES OF CHAOS

Picture of an older couple crossing the streets. Puprose of the image is to illustrate the writing exercise love in difficult times.

WABB LAB – LOVE – DAY 1 Wabb-Labs are a weeklong deep dive into a specific form of writing. It is almost February, which means love is in the air! This week we will drown ourselves in love and write about it every day! As you hopefully know, when it comes to love, action speaks […]

MAKE IT FICTION

Image of a woman re-arranging black and white pictures on a wall. The image illustrates the writing exercise in which you change a few things from truth to fantasy to allow yourself to get creative with your memories

WABB LAB – MEMOIRS – DAY 7 Distance can open new possibilities! This exercise is meant to help you look at your memories with the distance of a writer and the freedom of an artist. It can help you to rewrite your work and allow yourself to get creative with your own memories. Let go […]

A RULE YOU FOLLOWED WITHOUT QUESTION

picture of a notice board in a school. The image symbolises the memoirs writing exercise about rules that were in place in a system in your past

WABB LAB – MEMOIRS – DAY  6 Every system runs on rules.Some are written down.Most are not. The exercise Write about a rule you followed at the time without questioning it. It could be: Choose one rule.Stay with it. What to write Write about a time that someone broke the rule and what happened next. […]

A PERSON WHO DISSAPEARED

Atmospheric image of a woman smelling a flower.

WABB LAB – MEMOIRS – DAY 5 Welcome to day 5 of our first Wabb-Lab: Memoirs! Wabb-Labs are a weeklong deep dive into a specific form of writing. Immerse yourself fully and commit for one week of writing every day! Memoirs may sound like a later in life type of thing and looking back into […]