360 Snippet

Here's another of the 360 snippets made last Saturday. 

Want to write a story based on this 360 snippet? Please do! Email me your submissions on jennifer.newbury13@bathspa.ac.uk

If you wanted to join in but couldn't make it, you can always do the workshop whenever you want. Here's what you need to do:

Materials: paper, pens or pencils of different thicknesses.

1) Find a moderately busy place (not so busy that there's too much happening too fast to record, nor so quiet that you run out of things to write about). Eg, near bus stops can be good. 

2) draw a circle. It helps if you divide the circle into quarters with little dashes at the edge. 

3) you can start by describing fixed points in each quarter that can act as markers. I like to put the fixed points in a bolder ink because they remain where they are throughout the exercise. 

4) Note down everything that happens, people (what are they wearing, how is their hair styled, what are they doing? etc), conversation. Animal life. Moving vehicles. Everything that catches your attention. During quieter moments you can work on describing the fixed points more accurately and finding all those details. Consider all five senses: what can you see, hear, smell, taste, feel and touch?

5) stay for 45mins-2 hours or until you run out of space. 

6) Photograph your snippet and email it to me.

7) try writing a story based on something that interests you from within your snippet. And then email it to me. I might publish it on this blog.