I recently bought a book in the bookshop I volunteer in about the four seasons. It is poetry by many famous literary figures across history. As a twist to the usual quote layout and reflection of it in the blog, I am going to share a selection of lines from different points of autumn poems […]
Tag: creative writing
An Interesting and Quirky History of Fountain Pens “The pen is the tongue of the mind”- Horace. As a young writer who has mainly grown up “writing” on a keyboard, I am interested in the tools of traditional handwriting. About a year ago on this blog, I looked at how important handwriting still is. I […]
“Although sometimes seen as a little superfluous in an age of smartphones and laptops, handwriting still carries importance for many – it is often unique, with a handwritten message often feeling more heartfelt than a typed one. Some believe your handwriting can show your personality”- Dylan Difford- YouGov. As September arrives, so does the start […]
I’ve been reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, after my friend and manager, recommended it to me. Described online; ‘The Artist’s Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the ‘I’m not talented enough’ conditioning that holds many people back and helps […]
For those of you who don’t know, I work in a bookshop which happens to sell my books, and every time one of my books sells, I’m always amazed. I feel a mixture of anxiety, surprise, happiness and doubt. This doesn’t just happen with my books though, I make things too and when they sell, […]
I’ve been writing books, or at least trying to, for the last nine years. At first I was met with a lot of disbelief and raised eyebrows when I talked about being a writer. Most people didn’t believe I could or would be able to write a book. Four published books later, I have learnt […]
About a week ago as part of National Crime Reading Month, I attended a talk about writing Historical Crime. Three authors, Matthew Booth, J. C. Briggs and Deborah Swift spoke about historical crime and how they went about their writing. As an author, I find the writing process fascinating and I’m always looking for advice […]
The dissertation is something that has been on the horizon for any student. I had wanted to do a creative writing dissertation since I knew it was an option and I was lucky that I managed to get in. I wanted to challenge myself. Instead of working on a project I had already started or […]
When reading a great book you will always come across a few lines or paragraphs that will make you pause for a moment, they will make you laugh, cry, gasp, look inwardly at yourself, and say ‘wow’. These parts of the book are often quoted again and again by other readers in book reviews and […]
I Submitted My Poems and Prose To 100 Different Places… Now What? For the past two years, I’ve taken part in a challenge I’ve named the 100 Rejections Challenge. I’ve explained a bit more about it and my reasons for undertaking such a challenge in another blog post, but for the purposes of this one, […]