This week, let's talk about types of text, or the different ways in which subjects can be represented.

For example, look at the place you're sitting. (Front room? Bedroom? Roof?)

How many different ways have you encountered in books and theatre which represents such a physical space?

Maybe you will have found a room in a poem or narrative story, in a newspaper article or on a stage, on factual information panels, in a designer's notebook, as architectural drawings, in a historical analysis, as a data sheet on an archaeological dig, and so on.

Can we try and collect examples? I'll put them here over time.

Choose a subject for yourself. (A horse? Fish? Cat?) How many different ways, or types of text, could represent your subject? Let's talk about it, and how you could write up or show your ideas.

Set your own assignment this week. Show me what you've done.

Or you could try writing some poetry of objects. What would the sofa say if it could talk?

This week I'll pick some Everyday edits. You're welcome to poke around that site to see what you can find.

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Library week!

Tell me which new authors you're trying out.

Have you tried a different genre to the one you normally choose?

Write a short story, drawing on one or more of the following problems:

There must be a letter delivered in time.
A telephone must be answered if a life is to be saved.
A key must be inserted into a padlock.
Shelter must be built.
An object must be found.

Start anywhere you wish ... at a particular location, with the thoughts of a character, by describing what it is like to touch an object. Then see where your beginning takes you.