Creative Writing Wordshops Newsletter Feburary 2025

I have told so many love stories that I have become fiction.

(Rumi)

Tell me a story

This letter is once more about stories, specifically those I tell every Sat
morning. During COVID. stories for day one, day two, day three. Now a
weekly one with a quotation that counterbalances the story. (on Podcast
some 500 stories in dorianhaarhoffblog.co.za )

The joy of this commitment is that it goes out to 500 plus people yet arrives
individually on What’s App Broadcast and so becomes personal. People respond one-toone. The joy enlarges life. A story pebble thrown into a pond, the ripples washing up on far off shores. Tables spread with delicacies from exotic lands. You take from here, I sample there, and we are fed. Some stories I absorb from mythology, from the lives of saints, from quirkiness. I
adapt, embellish and twist. All the while, I learn about what makes a
measured story. For the more I know about stories, the less I know of this
vast untrammeled country. It’s TS Eliot arriving at the place and knowing it
intimately for the first time.

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