My writing life this month: festive melancholy, experimenting with blending memoir and fiction, honing my craft skills, and what an unsuccessful submission might teach me
Loved this Reflect post, Ellen, as I have all of them - but even more to celebrate and think about as the year draws to a close. So excited to hear more about the archive/fiction piece under development, it sounds really fascinating - and hope you’ve managed to find some stillness, fresh air and quiet (is any of that possible?!) in amongst all the madness. One major thing to celebrate: the bloody elf can go back in a box for another eleven months!
Thank you as always Clare for being my biggest cheerleader 🥰. There has thankfully been quite a lot of fresh air and some moments of stillness and quiet over Christmas - hoping to squeeze in some more before school and work resumes on Monday! I hope are having a good festive break, despite the A&E visit on Christmas Eve, and can burrow into some quiet(er) time once you're back at home.
A belated reply to say so glad you found some big pockets of fresh air and little pockets of time for you over the break - how beautiful has the weather been? We did similar once we got back to Glasgow and the blue skies and cold days have been dreamy. Hope the first day back at the desk has been ok, love from up here x
Loved this Reflect post, Ellen, as I have all of them - but even more to celebrate and think about as the year draws to a close. So excited to hear more about the archive/fiction piece under development, it sounds really fascinating - and hope you’ve managed to find some stillness, fresh air and quiet (is any of that possible?!) in amongst all the madness. One major thing to celebrate: the bloody elf can go back in a box for another eleven months!
Thank you as always Clare for being my biggest cheerleader 🥰. There has thankfully been quite a lot of fresh air and some moments of stillness and quiet over Christmas - hoping to squeeze in some more before school and work resumes on Monday! I hope are having a good festive break, despite the A&E visit on Christmas Eve, and can burrow into some quiet(er) time once you're back at home.
A belated reply to say so glad you found some big pockets of fresh air and little pockets of time for you over the break - how beautiful has the weather been? We did similar once we got back to Glasgow and the blue skies and cold days have been dreamy. Hope the first day back at the desk has been ok, love from up here x