![]() The stern and already rigid profile of her face looked as though chiselled of marble too, and the smile on her pale lips was full of an immense unchildish misery and sorrowful appeal. But her loose fair hair was wet there was a wreath of roses on her head. Among the flowers lay a girl in a white muslin dress, with her arms crossed and pressed on her bosom, as though carved out of marble. The coffin was covered with white silk and edged with a thick white frill wreaths of flowers surrounded it on all sides. ![]() The birds were chirruping under the window, and in the middle of the room, on a table covered with a white satin shroud, stood a coffin. The floors were strewn with freshly-cut fragrant hay, the windows were open, a fresh, cool, light air came into the room. He was reluctant to move away from them, but he went up the stairs and came into a large, high drawing-room and again everywhere-at the windows, the doors on to the balcony, and on the balcony itself-were flowers. He noticed particularly in the windows nosegays of tender, white, heavily fragrant narcissus bending over their bright, green, thick long stalks. A light, cool staircase, carpeted with rich rugs, was decorated with rare plants in china pots. A fine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste overgrown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses. He kept dwelling on images of flowers, he fancied a charming flower garden, a bright, warm, almost hot day, a holiday-Trinity day. Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic. ![]() But one image rose after another, incoherent scraps of thought without beginning or end passed through his mind. He was not thinking of anything and did not want to think. There was a cold damp draught from the window, however without getting up he drew the blanket over him and wrapped himself in it. “It’s better not to sleep at all,” he decided. Jacqueline lectures in fiction and creative non-fiction at the University of Aberystwyth, and frequently speaks at literary festivals and creative writing schools.He got up and sat on the edge of the bedstead with his back to the window. Jacqueline Yallop is the author of the critically acclaimed creative non-fiction work Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World, as well as three celebrated novels, Kissing Alice, Obedience and Marlford. Prose techniques for presenting real lives.Places, people and politics: adding colour to facts.Getting the most from real stories and events.What is creative non-fiction and why should I write it?.This highly practical weekend course is largely composed of workshops giving attendees hands-on experience of the creative and technical elements of producing creative non-fiction. Each attendee should bring along some of their research and/or writing that they are prepared to discuss. PLEASE NOTE: The second day of the course involves some workshopping based on participants’ work. You’re a journalist or blogger who wants to write a long-form treatment of a true story.You’re currently writing or planning a book based on events in your family history. ![]() You’re interested in writing a biography.You’re planning a personal memoir or long-form autobiographical work, whether about your life as a whole or a period within it.You’ll learn techniques for carrying out revealing research, as well as the literary skills to turn accurate facts into sparkling prose. Taught by renowned creative non-fiction author and lecturer Jacqueline Yallop, this stimulating weekend will show you new ways to research real lives and events, and convert them into long-form prose. This practical two-day course shows writers how to get the best out of the information at your disposal – whether you want to explore ancient history or immortalise current events. Whether you want to write biography, memoir, travelogues or social history, creative non-fiction offers authors a unique opportunity to give emotional resonance to dry facts and empirical experience. But knowing how to do justice to reality’s nuances and unbelievable truths is a tricky task. Life is a limitless source of incredible stories. Make the truth more readable than fiction ![]()
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