Writing in Flux

Daisies

Daisies © 2013 Mufidah Kassalias

Moving on, moving around, a few days here and a week or so there. Packing and unpacking. Settling in to a new situation for long enough to feel settled before picking up sticks again and moving on.

In the flow of constant change there are inevitable casualties. Some days you wake up to no clean socks, others to the realisation that the book you want to read is halfway across town with the small collection of belongings unloaded temporarily from the car. But these sort of things are minor in comparison to the casualty of concentration, a necessity for writing.

The irony, though, is that life itself tends to be full of inspiration when everything’s in flux.

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Writers-in-Residence@Yours!

Mufidah & Sean—Happy Folk

Mufidah & Sean—Happy Folk

If you’ve always liked the idea of dropping into the conversation that you’ve got a couple of writers-in-residence staying with you for a short time, then why not take a look at this possibility?

Alternatively, if you’d like to bring a Write from the Heart writing workshop to your town, then do get in touch — we’d love to hear from you!

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Stops Along the Way

Bergerac on the Dordogne

Bergerac on the Dordogne © 2013 Mufidah Kassalias

In mid-April Sean and I drove 560 kilometres (350 miles) north east of Burgos to Bergerac in the Dordogne region of France. Although we’d enjoyed our time in Spain, making friends and immersing ourselves in northern Spanish life, it was time to move on, to return to the UK for the spring and summer, and to run our Write from the Heart writing workshops. Continue reading

Stephen King on the Magic of Writing

Stephen King“Some of this book — perhaps too much — has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it — and perhaps the best of it — is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”

Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Burgos to Bergerac: To Take or Not to Take Toll Roads?

Catedral de Burgos

Catedral de Burgos © 2013 Mufidah Kassalias

Toll roads are to be avoided. They’re costly and dull, and definitely not the route of choice for a couple of slow travellers. Or so we thought before embarking on our drive north through Spain and France on our way back to England.

The day we left Burgos we spent hours sorting, packing and figuring out the Chinese puzzle that is our roof box and car boot combined, but by midday we were on the road to Bergerac. A few hours later than we had hoped, but according to Google Maps we were looking at a journey time of seven hours if we took the non-toll roads.

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