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Take the bones and build a story!
If you have ever tried to write a poem or short story directly from a dream, you will probably have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t really work. Dreams are pure subjective substance, which has...
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Why symbols dictionaries don’t work
There’s a popular idea that you can decode dreams in the same way as you might translate from a foreign language, by using a symbols dictionary. If you’ve ever tried it, you may have found it less than...
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When did you come out as a writer?
A friend of mine was really pleased with herself the last time I saw her because, after a lifetime of writing, she had finally stepped into that space and owned it. She had told an events organiser,...
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My first rule of writing
I work and teach in the practice school of writing. This means that rather than studying technique and trying to apply it, as we mostly learn to do in mainstream education, we start from just doing it...
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Authentically creative, by Carolyn Hughes
Carolyn Hughes is a writer with an interest in addiction and mental health issues. Her popular blog is The Hurt Healer and she has a lively and rapidly growing following on facebook and twitter I must...
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How can a really sad dream be a really good thing?
A sad dream can make you feel out of sorts all through the following day, but it may be Nature’s way of helping you to cope with stress. Here’s how it worked for me. As I mentioned in my last post back...
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The gifts of writing – 2
In this, the second of my pre-Christmas posts on the three gifts of writing, I’m thinking about the gift of awareness. In ordinary life, a lot of what we experience is subliminal. We engage with the...
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The gifts of writing – 3
So Christmas is nearly here, this great celebration of loving and giving – the perfect time to talk about the third gift that writing gives us, the gift of empathy. When I wrote my children’s book...
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How to have dreams that you can understand
Last week I described a dream I had when I was planning my writing projects for 2014, whose meaning was absolutely obvious. In that dream, I diverted from following Deborah Meaden on the path to the...
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Do antidepressants help or hinder creativity?
A while ago, I stumbled upon an interesting article by the novelist, Alex Preston Does Prozac help artists be creative? and reading it reminded me of my own experience of prescription drugs in my teens...
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