Today is the last day of January (finally!) and so also the last day of my month of blogging every day. I love doing this challenge as it helps to reinvigorate my writing habits and reminds me why I enjoy posting. This is a strange thing that I do - I am aware of this… Continue reading Last Day of Bloganuary
Category: Writing
Writing characters
As part of the writing course I am currently doing, we had to look at building well-rounded characters. The first task asked us to list 5-10 characters we loved with a few words explaining why. Then, we had to write for 15 minutes, looking at specific prompts, including an external provocation as well as an… Continue reading Writing characters
Currently
Reading: Wintering by Katherine May; The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various; The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry Listening: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K . Rowling; Mediations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; my 'Strummy' playlist on Amazon Music Watching: Silo and Bad Monkey… Continue reading Currently
Nature Journal
Some time last year, I realised that one of the things that could make me feel particularly good (whether that was happy, calm or some other contented state) was paying attention to nature around me. I acknowledge that this is hardly groundbreaking information. We are often told that being is nature is good for our… Continue reading Nature Journal
Writing Buddy
One of my 25 in 2025 things was to create a writing routine that worked for me as well as to find an accountability partner or writing buddy that was also needs support to write. I started the Writers' HQ course called Couch to 5K Words which aims to get you writing 5,000 words in… Continue reading Writing Buddy
Time travel
We refined my new reading spot over the weekend with a chair which is actually comfortable to sit in and so I spent a few minutes there enjoying the new space, reading an old journal. I have so many journals which have just the first 10-20 pages with writing and I was thinking I should… Continue reading Time travel
Memory keeping in 2025
I had so much fun making my 2019 Project Life album last year so I definitely want to make another one for 2020 this year. I have enough supplies for at least one more year, I think and then after that, I will need to see what size albums and pocket pages I can get… Continue reading Memory keeping in 2025