Back in Spain...

I'm back in Spain, after two weeks in the chill of Northern Europe. We even had snow one weekend while I was in Sweden, as you can perhaps see in these twilight photos taken as the snow was beginning to melt.
The writers' workshop was interesting and I enjoyed it a lot, even though it was quite a busy schedule with lots of homework to be done every night. The first week's topic was about creative non-fiction; that's when you take a true story and write it in an interesting way, like you'd read in a book, rather than in a simple journalistic style.  Our homework assignment was to interview a class mate and then write their story, just like writing a chapter in a book.

The second week's topic was about thematic writing - like when someone writes a book to communicate teaching or ideas, rather than to tell a story. Our homework that week included the writing of an article. My topic was to consider the question of whether missionaries should  urge native tribespeople to wear clothing!

Our class was a fun group of people. Four of us were there only for the seminar weeks and the remaining dozen will be completing the course and writing their books over the coming six months.