Authors tell of various methods employed to recall, inspire and awaken creativity. Anne Tyler has her index card method, using a brief sentence or two - even a word - filed away, to be used to spark writing in seasons of drought. I loved her description of one such index card which contained the sentence, [...]
Solitude Retreat Centre (Midlands) March 13, 14, 15 Cost: R2400.00 (all inclusive) Write to Right is a specialised short interactive writing course which is being offered by two Durban-based creative thinkers - a physician Laura Campbell and an artist, Bernice Stott - as a vehicle to encourage healing and wellbeing. “Through our work in caring [...]
Write to Right W2R is a specialised short interactive writing course which is being offered by two Durban-based creative thinkers - a physician Laura Campbell and an artist, Bernice Stott - as a vehicle to encourage healing and wellbeing. “Through our work in caring we know the power of writing. We know writing is an [...]
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The following story was published in the Stringy-Bark Anthrology. The theme was the Seven Deadly Sins: THE WAGES OF SLOTH- LAURA CAMPBELL “Do ya have a feckin` screw loose?” It is Tuesday. The sun didn’t bother to rise this morning and clouds have sprawled incessantly, grey and drizzling, over Black Mountain. A man (and I [...]
BEYOND THE BATTLE EXPLORING METAPHOR AS A LANGUAGE OF ILLNESS “I'm going to kill you. Every day, I'm going to kill you, and then I'm going to bring you back to life. We're going to hit you with chemo, and then hit you again, and hit you again. You're not going to be able to [...]
I wrote this on the Camino a few years ago. Where am I going? I ask this aging, thickening body and these dulling, dampened thoughts. I am going somewhere else. Somewhere where there is silence before a chorus of birdsong, darkness before a fire of dawn, emptiness before a silk of touch. I [...]
