As a child, I was obsessed with Winnie the Pooh. I loved Piglet the best. He was my favorite. He was small, and quiet. He stammered sometimes. He was afraid of the world, and pretty much everything in it. All of the things I was back then. I saw him as a friend, someone who… Continue reading Crying at The Tigger Movie
Category: Writing
A Better Year
For the past four years, I have struggled with the festive season. I first got diagnosed with the visual impairment in 2017, just before Christmas. It was a horrible time, one of the worst periods of depression I’ve ever experienced, made worse by the cheerful season. The years after were a little better, but still… Continue reading A Better Year
New Ways of Reading
I love reading, and I always will. Growing up, I would read hundreds of books, always eager for more. Mainly fantasy, or science fiction. Occasionally a horror or two, when I was a little older. I would read for whole days, devouring tomes heavier than I could carry. I stopped reading books, when the visual… Continue reading New Ways of Reading
Getting Better at Writing Dialogue
I have always struggled with dialogue. It’s a skill I was never very good at. I struggled with saying my own words, with the stutter and lack of confidence, never mind someone else’s. Recently, I have had to do a lot more talking. I got this new job, with a lot more meetings than my… Continue reading Getting Better at Writing Dialogue
Halloween
In my family, we never really celebrated Halloween. We never really dressed up or watched a movie. We just had a normal evening, and shut the curtains. I think I went trick or treating once, growing up. I don’t remember it being very enjoyable. I think I usually ended up reading some stories, or writing… Continue reading Halloween
Novel Dreams
As a child, I always dreamed of writing a novel. I wanted to be like my hero Tolkien. Write a fantasy novel set somewhere wonderful, full of action and adventure and danger and monsters. I tried several times, to write a novel. I would write whole sections of it at school, between lessons, on trains.… Continue reading Novel Dreams
Writing in Many Places
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I would always carry a notebook and pen, just in case. Ideas would come to me, and I would scribble them down wherever I was. So I have written in many places. I have written flash fictions in coffee shops, fuelled by mochas. I… Continue reading Writing in Many Places
A Happier Writer
A lot of writing is miserable. A lot of stories tend to gravitate towards dark themes; illness, depression, death etc. A lot of stories are miserable, with tragic endings. It’s because, a lot of the time, these are things that are popular with readers. It’s more emotive, more poignant. The reader can relate and enjoy… Continue reading A Happier Writer
Tolkien
He was gone before I was thought of. Buried before I was born. I wish I could have met him, the man who inspired me to start writing. I wish I could have thanked him for introducing me to a world of stories that have filled my life with joy and magic and wonder. I… Continue reading Tolkien