Freeing the writer within

Things have been moving along fast with our new courses, plus we’ve had a much needed holiday. We took our dear old VW camper “Lulu” through France down to basqueland – San Sebastian and Bilboa. More about all that soon on our family blog gravyland, hopefully with some of Bea’s artwork and a few pix.

On long drives and green hills I found time and space to again receive the wisdom of Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones. The words (on paper) were flowing. So good to feel that again. To really look and see and feel what was going on around me, and write it down. Much food for free thinking and new ways of synthesising ideas… seeing the patterns, making connections. The conversations we all shared helped things brew too.

Better out than in.

I really can’t recommend another book more highly for, as she promises and delivers, “freeing the writer within”. No matter what your blogging or writing context. We are first and foremost human beings, with our own unique perspective on our subject matter. If we want our writing, our blogging to inspire and inform, it needs to be coming from some one, not just anyone. People connect with people, they want to hear people, not robots.

Start with Natalie. It’s as simple as that.

Course updates in the next post.