Shut Up and Write!

The blurb is "We’ve discovered that it’s strikingly helpful to write with other writers. See if it’s true for you at 11 on Saturday mornings. Be it a book, blog, script, essay, dissertation, resume, melody, poem or just plain work stuff, you are invited to write it with us. No one will see what you've written or give you unsolicited advice. Instead of just thinking about writing, come and get some real writing done."

The first meeting was on the 18th of January, and the second was the 25th. It's great meeting with others who write/writers, and taking the time to be creative. It's so much easier to do it this way than to carve out time whilst I'm at home.

As the 25th of January is Santes Dwynwen's Day, I decided to write a story around the bare bones of Dwynwen and Maelon as described below.

The history behind Dwynwen’s story is that she was the prettiest daughter of the Welsh king Brychan Brycheiniog, but she fell in love with a man named Maelon Dafodrill. Unfortunately, her father had already arranged for Dwynwen to marry someone else.

Dwynwen was extremely distraught and she prayed to God to ask for help in forgetting Maelon. That night an angel visited her whilst she slept and gave her a potion. This potion erased her memory of her feelings for Maelon and turned him into a block of ice.

But God provided Dwynwen with three wishes – her first wish was Maelon should be thawed, her second wish was that God would meet the hopes and dreams of true lovers and thirdly that she would never marry. As all of her wishes were fulfilled, she gave her thanks by devoting herself to God’s service for the rest of her life.


There were no problems picturing Dwynwen, Maelon and Brychan. They each popped fully formed into my mind. My problems came when I tried to describe Dwyn and Mae's first meeting, and how they fell in love. Everything I tried seemed to reek of Disney.

I'm currently trying to think of as many clichés of love, just so I can avoid them!