Write What You Notice – a Creative Colloquy Workshop

Tonight, I attended another of the excellent writer’s workshops put on by Creative Colloquy. The topic was to emphasize the role of observation in our work as writers. Tiffany Aldrich MacBain led us through examples and exercises. We used a guide she’d given us in collecting information based on observation and then spun a scene from it.

Here’s the scene I wrote:

There was a black mark, a blob really, on my neighbor’s otherwise pristinely green lawn. I squinted morning eyes at it, not sur...