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Reflect | 2025
Life this year: writing, reading, community, hormonal surges and giving up alcohol, plus a (brief) look ahead to 2026
Dec 31, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | December
My writing life this month: festive melancholy, experimenting with blending memoir and fiction, honing my craft skills, and what an unsuccessful…
Dec 28, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | November
My writing life this month: compost and community, applications and overwhelm, old photographs and folktales
Nov 30, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | October
My writing life this month: part business as usual, part aha moments. Plus an extended reflection on the parallels between writing a first draft of a…
Oct 26, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | September
My writing life this month: fizzing thoughts, mosaic fragments, a one year anniversary, welcoming the dark back in, and challenging myself to fail
Sep 28, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | August
My writing life this month: a summer pause, my imposter syndrome is growing alongside my word count, and reflecting on The Chain's six week flash memoir…
Aug 31, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | July
My writing life this month: flash memoir summer, letting the writing flow, meeting past versions of myself and thinking about how much time we can hold…
Jul 27, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | June
My writing life this month: 1000 words of summer, spiralling into a new structure, thinking about homes and houses, imposter syndrome (again) and…
Jun 29, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | May
My writing life this month: a season of abundance, writing from the heart rather than the head, imposter syndrome, ghosts and scars, writing into the…
Jun 1, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | April
My writing life this month: resistance and new rhythms; writing in, about and through the body; slow progress is still progress; and reading memoir with…
Apr 27, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | March
reflections on my writing life this month: first draft progress, ashes and sunlight, submitting my work, family archives, always for love
Mar 30, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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Reflect | February
February writing goals | first draft feelings | unpacking my grief box | the unexpected catharsis of writing a birth story
Feb 28, 2025
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Ellen Chapman
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