Things Depressed People Say #1
Originally posted on The Lent Project:
Words are taken from people who spoke to studies on depression in the UK. Continue reading Things Depressed People Say #1
Tag: writing
A War Begins (& a Diary Ends)
THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE BLOG POST: PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LISTEN AS YOU READ….. As most of you will know, yesterday marked the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of World War One. As part of the centenary ‘celebrations’ (if they can be called that), I was involved in helping promote the Letter to an Unknown Soldier project. This was a UK-wide (and, in the end, world-wide) endeavor which asked participants to imagine the letter being held/read by the Unknown Soldier statue situated in Paddington Station. Over the last couple of months, over 20,000 entries were submitted as part … Continue reading A War Begins (& a Diary Ends)
The Day I Became a Socialist
This post is inspired by a couple of recent occurrences. Firstly, by the novel Six Pounds Eight Ounces, written by Rhian Elizabeth. In the first chapter, her character Hannah King details her first youthful forays into writing, and the teacher, then, who doesn’t believe the work is really by the girl. Which sounds familiar to many (now-writers) I am sure… Secondly, myself and poet Johnny Giles recently ran our first creative writing group for the really quite brilliant Recovery Cymru at their centre in Cardiff. The topic we wrote about, given by Johnny, was ‘the moment I knew’. While some … Continue reading The Day I Became a Socialist
