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Hand in hand – your best writing prompts are right in front of you!
Are you like me and take your hands for granted? Last night, I forgot a friend’s telephone number and realised that I was letting my fingers hover over the phone as if my fingers had their own memory....
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Join me on a VIRTUAL POETRY READING
To celebrate the publication of my poetry collection, YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF-HELP BOOK, a number of lovely bloggers have agreed to let me come on to their websites to read them (and you!) a...
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The Pop Up Poetry Tour Goes Cross-Atlantic
And today I have feet (or mouth) on both sides of the Atlantic for my Virtual Poetry Reading! Join me at Caroline Smailes’s blog for a reading of SOCKS, and then jump aboard my private jet to the New...
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THE NEXT STOP ON THE POP UP POETRY TOUR…
So, after a short break, we’re off on the next stage of the poetry tour. Please come with me to hear a prose poem, HAPPY, I THINK especially ‘shedified’ for the always inspirational Shedworking...
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Pop! It’s The Last Day of the Pop Up Poetry Reading…
…and I’m visiting some cracking websites to read you a different poem at each one. So get your glass of wine (what do you mean it’s too early? Lia says this is a ‘happening’) and please join me here...
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Eight Questions for Writing Successful Blog Posts
Writing in the Social Media Age – Part One I presented a workshop yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival on my personal experience of writing for websites, blogs, podcasts, Facebook and on my Twitter...
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The launch of YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF HELP BOOK – 8th March, London
If you heard bits of the Virtual Poetry Reading and would like to hear the real thing, or you just fancy some poetry on International Women’s Day… You are warmly invited to the official launch of my...
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Writing in the Social Media Age – Part Two
Here’s the follow-on from Eight Questions for Writing Successful Blog Posts, and is part of the presentation I did for the LSE Literary Festival last month. This post concentrates on Twitter, and how...
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When the writing self and the performing self meet….
(photo by Ellen Montelius) I was lucky enough to spend the whole of last weekend learning new ways to perform my own work. I don’t think there was one hour over the weekend when I wasn’t taken...
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How do writers play?
I need some help please. I’m looking for answers to the question … how important is playing and having fun for our creativity? One of the things I keep hearing recently is how impossible it is to make...
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