Category: Blog
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Notes from the pandemic
During lockdown the Joined Up Writers have not been idle. Quite the contrary: as soon as we became confined to our own homes we found a way to work together online through the video platform Zoom. Here are six things we’ve learned from gathering together each week since the beginning of April. It’s really quiet…
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Chapter 3: an experiment with WhatsApp
The Joined Up Writers are delighted to share Chapter 3 of our community novel, in which we meet a new character, Valerie, later in the evening on the day of the fair. Valerie has come to the village to house hunt but has found herself tangled up in the strange and tragic events of the…
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Let the re-writing begin!
No one should ever expect to write a story just once; it takes many drafts. This is where we are with the community novel which we began work on almost a year ago.