Announcement:
- September 2010 - School will be open to students on Monday 6th September. Wednesday 1st, Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd are staff training days.
Tim Bowler To Open The LRC
25th January 2010, 9:02amOn Wednesday 27th January the new LRC will be officially opened by the award winning teenage fiction writer Tim Bowler.
"Writing is my life. I've written stories since I was a boy. I'm a storyaholic. I believe in the power of stories to move us, entertain us and transform us. To me, writing is as much about listening as it is about putting down words. It starts with a whisper, a silent sound that flickers in the dark, then gradually, as you go on listening, you realise that the whisper has turned into an idea, and the idea into an obsession, and suddenly there are words on the page, and characters and settings, and the plot is bubbling around them like white water."
"Some people think there must be a set of rules for writing but the truth is there aren't any. It's more like tickling trout, holding your hand out and trying to coax the ideas to swim into your grasp; or being a potter, throwing the rough clay of your thoughts down and letting the story twist out under the palms of your hands; or being a sorcerer, stirring the cauldron of your imagination and watching the vapour of the story rise. Writing is all these things and many more. It's something you never bottom, never crack, never stop learning about. And that's why I love it."
