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Writing it out

Writing changes things

by Jan on April 19, 2010

I’ve been reading around the research on the power of writing to bring about real change and its impact on emotional and even physical health.  But even better than reading about it is seeing it in action. Last week I had the power of writing underlined for me by a very dear client with whom [...]

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Writing what we don’t know

by Jan on April 14, 2010

I write what I don’t know. Robert Creeley I was struck by this quote from an interview with the poet, Robert Creeley. Think about it for a minute, even if you’ve read it before, please hold it, just for a few heartbeats. OK, I’m taking it completely out of context (you can read the whole [...]

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Where is my muse?

by Jan on March 23, 2010

Do you sometimes have days when ideas flood in, when the way ahead is obvious, when you’re buzzing and eager? And perhaps other days when you feel utterly stuck, as if there’s a wall in your mind, stopping you from getting at the creative ideas for changing your life which are tantalisingly close, but inaccessible? [...]

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Writing from somewhere else

by Jan on March 17, 2010

Just before you start reading Please understand This is not art. It’s not literature. I don’t read much poetry; Not educated in the field at all. I really know jack about iambic pentameter and the like. But I do know that writing from somewhere else From a part of me that is slowly coming back [...]

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Snowdrops

by Jan on February 25, 2010

Like me, like you Snowdrops Find themselves stuck in hard places. Hostile places. Like me, like you They have an instinct to grow And so they push against the frozen soil And finally, unseen, pop out Into the sunshine. Whereupon Like me, like you They are snowed on, iced over, pelted with hailstones, Stung by [...]

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