By Becky Swain, Head of Learning and Participation, Arvon
During the Teachers as Writers (TAW) research, one of the professional writers made the following observation of the teachers who joined us for a residential creative writing week:
“When we encouraged them to really totally switch off their inner editor and just write – they were producing work that was really extraordinarily fresh and powerful because they lost all kind of inhibitions and self –consciousness.”
I saw first-hand that week some of the sheer pleasure that teachers found in freewriting – or what the group termed ‘Just Write’ Continue reading “On choosing to write”