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Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]
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I can look back to a time when writing poetry was one of the main ways that I had for making sense of the world around me. The creative output from this time in my life actually staggers me – although sometimes I cringe at the quality – I was certainly prolific. I thought I’d [...]
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Since the beginning of March this year I have been podcasting my short stories/fables/fairytales as “Stories from the Borders of Sleep“. It has been pretty exciting to see the listnership grow as we (that’s me and my producer, Tim, and Illustrator, Robyn) have started to put new episodes out on a fortnightly basis. There are [...]
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The next couple of months is looking exciting, here’s what I am up to: Stories from the Borders of Sleep This is my personal pet project that is delightfully growing a life of its own. For a number of years I have been keeping a dream diary and also a record of some of the [...]
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“Why do you write?” someone asked me. I took two minutes to give them my pat answer, which has to do with books and stories having practically raised and educated me and, above all, comforted me, and how, as “we read to know we are not alone”, I write in order to reach out and [...]
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