journaling
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The most important thing you can do for yourself as a writer is to show up for yourself and then, keep showing up. I came close to stopping posting altogether recently. I thought perhaps it was time for a break. Maybe I had lost direction, maybe I needed to step away for a while. But… Read more
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Yesterday, my second poem was published in Flare Issue 32. It’s called Searching for the Stillness. When I wrote it, I was searching for something. I was asking myself, what is my purpose? I spent a lot of time in my head, thinking about life and meaning, sometimes so caught up in the questions that… Read more
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I’m an eclectic writer – from poetry to children’s stories, scientific papers to memoir- but what I have trouble doing is finishing pieces to a quality I am proud of…or if I’m really honest – finishing pieces….like this post for example, its been sitting as a draft since January (which made me laugh today when… Read more
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I haven’t been writing much and certainly haven’t been posting on my blog. My Writing for Healing workshop was a dream of mine from two years ago – inspired by Natalie Goldberg’s book ‘Writing down the bones’ where she talked about how much she learnt about herself as a writer – by teaching. It intrigued… Read more
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I’ll start with the good news – I’m here, I showed up, I am being accountable to the challenge, hurrah for me! But for my writing – not such a great week. I only added an extra 1091 words to the draft. I could say life got in the way (it did) & it was… Read more