Reflections
Confident Writing: Highlights of 2008
A whistle stop tour through the highlights of the past year…
January: A new design for the new year - thanks Cat!
February: Leaps and bounds was the theme, inspired by the leap year, leading to one of my favourite group writing projects - My Love Affair With Writing
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Generosity: in 2 Syllables or Less
One evening, over dinner, the world collapsed around my ears.
I phoned my friend.
“I don’t think I’ll make it on Friday,” I whispered.
“Are you all right?” she asked.
“No,” I said.
“I’m coming to get you”, she said.
And so she did.
When Good Advice Goes Out the Window: Down The Writing Rabbit Hole
She generally gave herself good advice (though she seldom followed it)
Chapter 1: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
I found myself down a writing rabbit hole the other week. I was trying to finish work on a book of writing tips, culled from the best of Confident Writing. I was two weeks beyond my self-imposed deadline (the end [...]
Words of Remembrance
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on–on–and out of sight.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away . . . O, but [...]
Learning from the Writing on the Wall
This month’s “What I Learned From…” group writing project is what I learned from government.
As I worked for the government in Scotland for just over 10 years my thoughts immediately turned to what I learned from that experience. And as I like to try and weave the ‘what I learned from’ projects into the theme [...]
