Christine Poole

Scientist. Writer. Facilitator. Artist. Curious about what helps us grow.

Memoir

  • 🚲 Creative Growth Spurt

    I’ve been thinking about what happens when we grow. Not the slow, steady kind of growth that is almost invisible while it’s happening. I mean the sudden kind. The kind where, almost without noticing, you find yourself finishing things you would once have abandoned. Writing more. Creating more. Sharing more. Becoming more visible. A Creative… Read more

  • 🧵Becoming the Person Who Could Write My Memoir

    Last week I took down my box of journals and put them on an empty shelf beside me. It might seem like a small thing, but it felt significant. My long-term project, my dream project, has been with me for years. The first time I wrote creatively was in a creative writing class, and on… Read more

  • 🧭 Following the Breadcrumbs

    Every now and then I go back and read something I wrote a few years ago. Recently, I went back through a series of blogs about writing my memoir and realised something I couldn’t see at the time. I had been leaving myself breadcrumbs. The first was on 25 October 2019: “I’ve decided I’m going… Read more

  • Finish my memoir draft – Day 70 update

    What I learnt from this challenge from Day 1 (06.03.24) to now Day 70 (15.05.24) What next for the memoir project? Great job Christine – now go ahead and do that dance of joy to celebrate your achievements! Thanks for reading/liking and best of luck with your own creative endeavours. Read more

  • Finish my memoir draft – Days left 27/90

    I haven’t posted for the last two weeks. I didn’t post because I didn’t write. I didn’t write because I couldn’t, I got stuck and so I stopped showing up. I was reading my journals from 2021, and I released that while writing a memoir with themes of chasing your dreams, and living to your… Read more

  • Finish my memoir draft – Days left 48/90

    Christine Poole 17th April 2024 This week has been interesting and I’ve learnt two things about writing this memoir! I was feeling tired & unmotivated & probably still a bit jet lagged so progress was slow – in fact it was not happening. Wednesday = 0 words, Thursday = 0 words. Friday= 0 words & Saturday… Read more

  • Finish my memoir draft – Day 55/90 (update)

    Christine Poole 10th April 2024 We went to New York City for a week & I took time off writing the memoir. Now I’m finding it excruciatingly difficult to get started again. But the only way to start again….. is to start again! The deadline is definitely helping – I’m aiming for 80,000-90,000 words, and… Read more

  • Finish my memoir draft – Day 76/90 (update)

    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

  • Mindfulness

    Every time I enter a new chapter in life, I do a spring clean – out with the old & in with the new! I’m sorting through the stack of books in my writing room that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet and I have just now finished reading Mindfulness-A practical guide to finding… Read more

  • Finish my memoir – Day 83 (of 90 day challenge)

    As soon as I posted last week about my 90 challenge to finish my first draft, I went downstairs and asked ‘what have I done?’ Eddie & Oisín (prompted by Eddie) said in unison, ‘We believe in you!’ What more could I ask for 🙂 The next morning, I woke at 5am and started writing.… Read more