Writers’ Room II - Sunday 27th 12-8pm

Taking place at the latest incarnation of the Really Free School, (The Black Horse, 6 Rathbone Place), we're proud to present a collaborative writing party...

Nb. If you'd like to book a twenty minute slot on the schedule, contact writersrooms@gmail.com to check availability.

Here’s the deal:

We’re writing a collaborative piece. Each writer has twenty minutes of an eight hour total time slot. You’re allowed to see what has been before and you’re certainly allowed to imagine what might come next.

It is being typewritten (for a greater connection to the words: key, arm, letter, life) but at the end it will all be lashed together, in a very loose electronic editing process.

Here are some guidelines:

Let go of your ego. By its very nature, what is written will never be nominated for any prizes. The process is the prize.

‘Artists are composed of vanity, indolence and self-regard. Work blocks are caused by the swelling up of the ego of one or all of these fronts. Tell your ego to go to hell and not make a misery of what should essentially be fun, joy...’

Own your section entirely and absolutely; but be aware that it is a part of something larger. Respect all who are connected to your section, both before and after; you owe it to them to do this with joy in your heart.

You’ve only got twenty short minutes. Time stands watch, willing you not to waste it - don’t.

The Valentine has been chosen to deny dithering; there is no backspace on the wheel of life. And, heck, who knows, maybe some of her beauty will rub off on our writings.

Fuck beginnings, middles and ends; we end when time is up or there is no-one left to write. We do not wish denigrate structure per se, but today it has no place...

Lighting out after inspiration...

'Don't loaf and invite inspiration: light out after it with a club...'
Jack London


 

Image: Cold and empty now, we'll fill it with warmth and words...

(borrowed under creative commons licence from the kindly people at RFS)

The Writers' Room provides a space to be inspired. It can be hard to make the words come, sat behind a desk: the weight of expectation is just too great. So let this beautiful Bloomsbury mansion house help you beat the block.

Bring laptops, notebooks, pens and paper, and put some words down on them. The musicians have their studios: the click clack of qwerty keys shall be our jam

Talking of talks: the speakers' schedule...

Wednesday 9th February

8pm - 8.40pm 'Rhyme: the riddle of the mind' - Mr. Gee, spoken wordist and former poet laureate of the former Russell Brand Show, talks about the universality of rhyme, and the links between rhyme and rhythm. He'll probably do a poem or two as well.

Thursday 10th February

7pm – 7.40pm ‘How to have a beautiful blog’ - Ms. Marmite Lover is the guerrilla restaurateur behind the Underground Restaurant, one of the Evening Standards’ 1000 most influential Londoners and writer of the widely read ‘the English Can Cook’ blog (not to mention anarchist and former squatter). She’s here to tell you how to write a blog that people actually read.

8pm - 8.40pm  'Independence' - Tariq Goddard, author, publisher and founder of zer0 books speaks and takes questions on creative writing and independent publishing. Whitbread prize nominee for his first novel, Homage to a Firing Squad, Tariq is also open to book proposals from serious potential authors.

(Check out zer0's manifesto.)