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scots writer, creative writing teacher & blogger - kirsten mckenzie kirsten mckenzie official website for kirsten mckenzie, author of the chapel at the edge of the world and the captain's wife on january 24, 2013 by kirsten the importance of sketching because my mother was an artist, sketches were something i became accustomed to seeing around the house, as a child, in the same way you might see shopping lists, to do lists, receipts or bills. of course, i saw those things as well. often they were mixed up with the sketches, and sometimes they were on the same piece of paper. my mother had finished pieces of work, some mounted on the walls, more stacked up in the boxroom waiting to be mounted or framed, and i was used to seeing the designs she had completed in her paid work as a graphic designer, but it was the sketches i was always fascinated with. it was often in the sketches, i found, that a particular stroke of the charcoal or the pen had captured an expression, a movement, in a person or an object that it seemed to me told a story much larger than its mere physical space would suggest. to me these sketches often held more power, were more dynamic, than the finished pieces. they represented the moment when my mother had become interested enough in something to want to interpret it, and that interest told a story of my mother’s relationship with the object, or the person. and it was through a form of sketching that i first discovered writing. i was fascinated with the patterns of words and the way they linked together to create meaning beyond meaning. two well chosen words can create a picture in our minds. a simple gesture can describe a person. a line of dialogue reveals a character, a relationship, a whole story. many of the new writers i have taught on creative writing courses have been very concerned with structure. i know how to write, they may say, but i don’t know how to structure a story. i don’t know how to structure a novel. this is reinforced by the dependence of the publishing industry, the film industry, on the power of story structure to stimulate and guide us from one end of the book or film to the other in a satisfying, predictable, and hopefully profitable manner. i myself remember feeling exceptionally guilty when after years of writing i seemed to have nothing to show for it but fragments of stories, unpolished, unstructured. i learned, to some degree, to take my sketches and to work them into finished pieces, to polish them with metaphorical linseed and lacquer and work them into the kind of thing that is expected of a story. but sometimes, looking back at those early word sketches, i see a rawness that if we are not careful, as writers, we are in danger of losing. every so often we need to take some time, to go out with our notebook, or sketchbook, and write without structure in mind. short descriptions of people and places, sections of dialogue, a character drawn from head to toe in coloured words. we don’t know in advance what we’ll choose, but afterwards we see that each sketch has its own story to tell, and to my mind, that’s how the best stories begin. on august 6, 2012 by kirsten finding your authority in my mind, the idea of a retreat has always conjured up an image of excessively thin and slightly hysterical, hypochondriacal women attempting to nurture their spiritual wellbeing while doing yoga and debating issues such as the essence of self. since the essence of myself, or so i thought, has disappointingly never been much of a mystery, it’s something i would have traditionally assumed was not for me. however, having accidentally discovered a love of teaching through teaching creative writing, this year i decided to do a teacher training course. i never intended to stop writing, but i was aware that the training would take over for a couple of years. to justify this, i started telling myself that teaching was a more worthwhile profession than writing, less egotistical, less about telling the world how i see things and more about helping others discover how they see things. this may be true, but the transition had brought about some soul searching, as i wondered whether embarking on my third career before the age of 40 said something about my staying power, and whether in taking on yet another steep learning curve i was going to undo all the work i had done in improving as a writer, whether i would find the will to continue. on top of all this, i had just finished my fourth novel in as many years, and was exhausted. all leading to me not writing a sentence for three months, something which i felt extremely guilty about. i convinced myself that having a properly labelled stacking system in the upstairs cupboard was an infinitely more practical and important matter than writing a fifth novel, or even a short story. i decided, then, to give a writing retreat a stab, and booked myself on a course at moniack mhor. there was no yoga in sight (although the possibility of clandestine yoga having taken place can’t be excluded), and no hysteria, besides my own. there were lots of writers, enthusiastic about reading and writing and their own writing styles and tastes. there was amazing food and wine and beautiful surroundings. and most importantly, i came back with a body of work, and the knowledge that whatever else i do in life, writing will always come foremost. among the many stimulating discussions that we had about writing, writers, and the future of publishing, two comments by resident tutors, susie maguire and julian gough , stuck in my head. susie likened the word author to the word authority. being an author is about finding your voice, the authority to be yourself, unashamedly. and when that kind of authority exists in writing, when we recognise the confident, natural voice, we recognise the author. be fearless, said julian gough, giving us the not at all intimidating task of writing the best story in the world ever that we could possibly hope to write, where we see ourselves in ten years time. i’m not sure i’ve achieved that yet (sorry julian), but i now say to myself, each time i approach the screen, be fearless. and then there was the inspiring presence of one of my favourite authors, bernard mcclaverty , a writer with no trace of ego, but fearless in his writing, with the natural authority of someone who has been there and done it and knows exactly why, knows that nothing is wasted. so for what it’s worth, as i enter a new era of my writing life, here’s my advice for future authors. you might make a living out of writing. you might not. you should want to improve not for the sake of your own ego but because of the story you want to tell the world. secure an alternative source of income, or enjoy being poor. find your authority. be fearless. take your time. you have all the time in the world. for more info on moniack mhor retreats and courses visit http://www.moniackmhor.org.uk/ on june 1, 2012 by kirsten grammar – to whom may it concern i have to be honest. i got through nigh on twelve years of my life with virtually no understanding of grammatical terms, due to an unsettled period of teacher absence in my late primary school years. that’s not to say that i had no understanding of grammar, of course. understanding the language of grammar, and understanding grammar, are two entirely different things. as an avid reader, i had absorbed, as opposed to learned, the structure of the english language. i couldn’t have told you what an adverb was, but i certainly knew where to place it in a sentence. despite these shortcomings, i managed to go on to pursue a successful career in communications, followed by a career as an author. and it was only then, at the age of 30, that i began to gain a real understanding of the grammar of my own language, not, as you might expect, through my writing, but through learning another language, italian. in one year i managed to pick up more understanding of the structure of 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