What I have learned about writing #improvement #growth

My first book was published in 2013. That seems a long time ago now but for writing that’s not very long at all. If you add the time before that publication, there were a few blooper manuscripts. If you were to ask me how long I have been writing, I would have to say about […]

Another year goes by! 2019 will be great. #GreatBeginnings #PositiveThoughts

I’ve had a challenging but fabulous year! I’m very grateful to have experienced small personal progress artistically with receiving a special commendation from the British Independent Film Festival for my feature film, Grandfathers.   This year I had two more poems published in an art and literature journal. Out of Frame was published in February […]

Life works out for us #perception #selfefficacy #selfexploration #selfbelief

Does it? Really? Well, maybe not the way we expect or demand at certain times in our lives.  However, we can look back and say the ‘not so good’ things that happened to us prompted reflection and learning. Perhaps our disappointments encouraged us to reach for a new way to do something, to search for […]

The Words Pour Out Across Space and Time #Poetry #Poems

The harrowing task of writing a poem used to be just that, harrowing. Mostly because I didn’t want to take risks. I was always trying to understand the work of great poets. Usually, that’s what we do as writers, we examine other work to understand how to write well. With that academic knowledge comes great […]