Unreliable Narrators …

Blog 114 – Unreliable Narrators

They’re everywhere: Paula Hawkins’s ‘The Girl on the Train’, SJ Watson’s ‘Second Life’, Gavin Extence’s ‘The Mirror World of Melody Black’ and former Creative Inker Luana Lewis’s ‘Don’t Stand So Close’. Psychological thrillers.
But they also emerge with the naïve narrators in Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time’ and Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. In fact who or what is reliable in this world? I’ve run two Deception/Unreliable Narrators workshops at the Blossom and Grey coffee shop in Chesham Bois and also in Fitzrovia in conjunction with http://newlondonwriters.com where writers also gained feedback from a literary agent who had read their work. My understanding is that three of the 12 writers have been asked for more and I’m chuffed that two of those writers have run their early chapters through Creative Ink. We hope to run more. Do not let any grass start growing before enrolling as Alice from New London Writers is efficient and supportive. I would go into a business scrubbing school floors with her.
Back to last blog’s ‘Pillow Talk’. When my duvet was returned I wasn’t convinced it was the one I sent in for dry cleaning. I felt a bit like the mother feels when you can’t swear your new pup is yours when it’s returned from the Poodle Parlour. But I couldn’t swear on the duvet, so I let it go …
Creative Ink Classes beginning Tuesday 15th and Thursday 17th for five weeks at the Fitzwilliams Centre: Tuesdays/full with some places left on Thursdays. 10.00 am until midday. Email me for a syllabus.