In this edition you will find
My musings on being a write-aholic
Meditation/ Guided Visualisation: Learn more about a character that feels 2D (and make them more multifaceted)
Last week, I decided to take this week off from writing. I am very close to the end of the edit (re-write) of my novel. In fact, it is all done, bar the elusive ending that is just making itself known to me quietly. In the bigger picture, I know how it ends, it’s just the quiet, important details that are filtering in. So…I decided to take the week off and to let those pieces of the puzzle fall together in my down time. I was excited! I would read, sit on the beach, swim, cook, hang out with friends. Well, my dear readers, I have discovered something about myself in these first few days of my writing vacation. It turns out that I am a write-aholic.
I have really really struggled not to write, not to edit (my own or other’s work), not to show up in the London Writers’ Salon Cabin (on Zoom) and write along side my global writing community. I am like the businessperson who struggles to switch off on holiday and only manages to relax just as they are about to head home. I’d never understood those people until now. Writing anchors me and I found myself saying the following words through tears to some writer friends today: