"After she lost him, she quit the job, knowing she could never be playful, or pretend to be playful"
More wonderful writing from @quickasaflash.bsky.social - great use of anadiplosis and the haibun form. Brilliant to hear this was born on a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course!
Lightbulbs in a divided square with one half in orange and the other against a blue sky. The text reads #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb
A wonderful thing. Today is the FIVE YEAR anniversary of my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course. Can't quite believe it's been that long. So, so grateful to everyone who has taken one of the courses since then. There have been A LOT of you. Today I'm starting course number FORTY!!!!
"You’re not asleep, but if you keep your eyes shut nobody will talk to you, not that anyone will, they’re all grimly holding themselves together"
Wonderful fractured piece from @anneh23.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
"Over luncheon, Mother fusses as if the hospital hadn’t fed me, and rings for Zillah to take my mutton back to Cook"
Wonderful story from @chriscottom.bsky.social
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world. Congrats, Malina!
Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Always exciting to start a new session of one of my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. "Colourful Characters" starting today. Can't wait to see all the brilliant writing that emerges over the next two weeks. Always such a treat.
If you're taking part, check your inbox - you should have emails!
Matt's courses are sublime, @mattkendrick.bsky.social look what I wrote on #Writebeyondthelightbulb
"Ye need tae git the pan roastin to scald fish skin, crisp it up"
Wonderful mastery of tone and flow in this richly creative story from @joycebingham.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
"And she’s running past the end of her road, past the allotments with the not-sweet gooseberries her mum’s always saying she’ll make into a pie one day"
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This is a gem from @bonniemeekums.bsky.social
"Tattooed forearms flexing, he ploughs through the pebbles and onto the tarmac before anyone can stop him"
A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
"Spring buds bulge on branches, like the balls of debt stuffed into the jar on the kitchen windowsill"
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story doing well out in the world. This is a stunner from @laurabesley.bsky.social; so much bubbling away here.
"I have the alligator dream once or twice a month, more frequently in summer. In the dream, the alligator holds a sharp, skinny knife above me while I gulp hard at the air"
Stunning piece from @joannatheiss.com
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world 🤩
A background of lightbulbs. White text reads "#WriteBeyondTheLightbulb"
Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses.
Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Want to write with me in August? My #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course is open for bookings.
Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.
Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Write Beyond the Lightbulb: Go With The Flow. Anchors | Bridges | Stitches | Threads. 5th – 18th May 2025. Online, fully asynchronous course and workshop. Pay-what-you-can pricing (£105 recommended)
I'm so grateful that my slightly-better-than-expected health has allowed me to keep teaching my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. For anyone who'd like to write with me, the next one I've got scheduled is "Go With The Flow" in May: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-go-with...
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"I didn’t want Jeremy to come. When he’s around, it gets noisy and scratchy in my head, like a petting zoo with every animal sound all at once"
Wonderful creativity & use of the child-voice in this piece from @cake-girl.bsky.social.
#WriteBeyondTheLightbulb
"elastic hours stretching like cheese from fresh-baked pizza / the scratch of her husband’s two-day-old stubble, comforting against her cheek"
Stunning build of imagery in this hybrid piece from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
"Jazz was a supernova, shimmering darkly at the edges with
something flammable and spectacular"
Wonderful evocation of character and a real richness of imagery in this #FlashFiction from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Four years ago today, I was setting out on my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course with an intrepid group of writers. Who was there with me?
Tomorrow, I'm teaching course THIRTY-ONE!!!
AND, even though I thought I might have to stop the courses after Feb, a SMALL announcement...
"We are strangers, connected by the peace of this tiny city square, the surprise of the afternoon sun"
A brilliant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social that builds from beginning to end so well.
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world.
"The hotel is beside the sea, and somehow Kate does not associate bats with the water. Pictures dark moors instead"
Wonderful to see this fantastic #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story from @fionamckay.bsky.social out in the world.
"When my mother called his name, he turned grey as gravel, or neon green as the plastic sea grass she’d purchased to jazz up the tank"
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This one from @bsherm36.bsky.social is a brilliant extended metaphor - give it a read!
Just been updating my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories - now 115 brilliant pieces that started life on one of my courses. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Amazed at all the superstar writers I get to write with on a regular basis 🤩
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories
In front of a man's colourful face, the text reads "WRITE BEYOND THE LIGHTBULB: Colourful Characters"
Eeek! Today is the first day of the first course I've taught in eight months. Think I've forgotten what I'm doing 🙃 If you're taking the "Colourful Characters" course, you should have emails in your inbox. I'm excited for this! Also nervous! #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb
Against the backdrop of a colourful face, the words "WRITE BEYOND THE LIGHTBULB: Colourful Characters"
Anyone doing my January round of "Colourful Characters" check your inboxes. You *should* have a one-week-to-go email lurking in there. So excited to get back to teaching these courses this year.
#WritingCourse #FlashFiction #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb
Write Beyond the Lightbulb: Glorious Words Specificity | Imagery | Tone | Miscellany 5th – 18th February 2024 Online, fully asynchronous course and workshop Pay-what-you-can pricing (£95 recommended)
There's just ONE place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Glorious Words" course for February 2024. All other spots on my early 2024 courses have now been taken. Who'd like the final spot?
If it helps, you can sign up now, pay in January.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou...
Write Beyond the Lightbulb: Colourful Characters. Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective. 8th – 21st January 2024. Online, fully asynchronous course and workshop. Pay-what-you-can pricing (£95 recommended)
Who wants to come and write with me in January?
Only TWO place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course.
Will be a wonderful way to start 2024!
#FlashFiction #WritingCourse #WritingCraft #AmWriting
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Wonderful tone of voice from @ruthabrandt.bsky.social in this stream-of-consciousness #FlashFiction from The Phare: "Woah, OK so it’s like dripping. Plink plink plink. Get what I’m saying? Plink plink."
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world.
In February (5th-18th) I'm teaching "Glorious Words" which is all about learning new techniques to sharpen up your words and sentences, thinking about specificity, imagery, and tone as well as contemplating weasel words and highlight phrases:
#FlashFiction #WritingCraft #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb
