Why writing boosts wellbeing

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Studies show that writing helps process emotions. Troubling thoughts can circle round the mind, taking on a magnitude all their own, and leave us feeling exhausted, and helpless. Those thoughts, if they stay in the brain and don’t find an … Read More

How to use seasonal settings in fiction

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Christmas provides a rich seam for writers to draw on. Most years, Christmas movies gross billions at the box office. Some authors bring out a Christmas book a year. And festive family feuds are gold dust for script writers. Where … Read More

Writing exercises for the Autumn season

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After a last blast of summer, autumn is upon us.  With its natural beauty, its distinct scents, its crisp air as temperatures drop, and all its associated emotions, it’s a season that has inspired writers throughout time. Today we are … Read More

Emerging from isolation: virtual writing workshop 6

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I had a week off work recently and was lucky enough to go up to Whitby again. Although we only stayed for a day, it felt good to breathe the sea air and walk on the sand. There were little … Read More

Window on the world: creative writing during lockdown

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Maggie’s Creative Writing Group: – Virtual Workshop 2 While the group I run at Maggie’s isn’t meeting, we are having virtual sessions instead, and I’m posting the exercises here for others to join in. Here’s today’s session. Exercise 1: A … Read More

Writing groups go virtual: workshops for self-isolation.

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At times like this, when many of us are in isolation, writing for wellbeing has never been more important. But sadly, the therapeutic groups that proved a lifeline can’t now meet, so we’re finding ways of doing it virtually instead. … Read More

Corona-angst: writing in altered times

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The world has changed since I last wrote this blog three weeks ago. It was changing then, but the change was still some distance away, creeping closer, but still far away enough for it to be about other people not … Read More

D. H. Lawrence: writing inspired by Nottingham’s literary heritage

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The Creative Writing group at Maggie’s Nottingham has been invited to produce some work for an exhibition at the D H Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. So for the last few sessions our writing exercises have been based around … Read More

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