2022-07-18 15:40
During the last few months I’ve kept thinking about this blog. I’ve been reprimanding myself for not having posted anything since last September. Haven’t I had plenty to ta… Read More
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I’m Lynne and I’ve been blogging since May 2016 with a regular weekly post. In line with my being a writer and a visual artist I blog about the creative life, the ebb and the flow, how to nurture it and sustain it, using my passionate interests in psychology, philosophy, and the natural world but with a real world application, sharing my own observations, thoughts, and snippets from my life. This is also a cathartic process for me which I love, and I’m honoured by followers taking the time to read my posts. I never would have imagined I’d take to blogging as much as I have, so it has been a revelation. So topics include all kinds of things about writing, art and the creative life, matters of the head and matters of the heart.
2021-09-26 16:07
Hello again! I hope you are all well, have stayed safe from fire, floods, and virus, and have been keeping up with the ebb and flow of the creative life. Despite me doing so with my painting… Read More
2021-06-14 11:57
I’m finally back in the blogging seat after what feels like so long! I’ve been so immersed in personal projects and family life issues, that I just haven’t had the he… Read More
2021-03-27 18:03
Well my last post was on the 20th December so it’s about time the stranded boat was moved on into the shallows a little! Like many of you I’m waiting for my vaccine, which for so… Read More
2020-12-20 13:37
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s the fact that very rarely are one’s thoughts, feelings, and dilemmas, entirely unique to oneself. And this can b… Read More
2020-11-01 15:31
With all the chaos and confusion going on in the world right now, I’ve noticed many writers doing less blogging and I seem to have succumbed to it myself. It’s probably not surpr… Read More
2020-09-19 20:08
Apart from doing my usual creative pursuits and living life in a virus endangered , environmentally disastrous, and politically farcical world, along with all of you, I’ve been visitin… Read More
2020-08-08 18:20
Hello again after a few weeks absence! I’ve been tuning in with some of you in the interim and we all seem to be trucking along as best we can, while striving to stay safe in these t… Read More
2020-07-04 20:20
I didn’t think I’d be writing another post about the corona times we are going through with Covid 19 causing so much strife in our lives, but the recent few weeks have been so e… Read More
2020-05-16 18:30
By now you’ll know how much I love images. Well, this image from Pixabay has been waiting in my media gallery for an appropriate time, and finally I have a use for it because the road… Read More
2020-04-12 11:48
Hello again! Well, we are all approximately 3 weeks into the corona lockdown now, and I wonder how you are faring? When I was reading a blog post this week, the writer used the… Read More
2020-03-22 19:34
It’s been quite a week, hasn’t it? I was thinking to myself, should I do a post related to THE VIRUS or not, and if so, what could I possibly have to say that hasn’t been&n&hell…Read More
2020-03-01 11:31
I’m almost finished reading a history book on a particular dictator who caused havoc and mass suffering, and I’m about to read another on a current politician who is showi… Read More
2020-02-08 19:49
Hello again! We are into February, hurrah! Spring is just about in the air, and the snowdrops are bobbing their heads in the hedgerows as the wind picks up speed for the coming storm we hav… Read More
2020-01-19 15:54
Well we’re moving steadily through January now and I always seem to experience the same feelings every year at this time. I sense a sluggishness from ‘out there’ : it may b… Read More
2020-01-04 19:54
Happy New Year to you all! Or as I prefer to say these days (after having learned this phrase from a Swiss friend a couple of years ago): Rutsch guet ϋbere – meaning slide o… Read More
2019-12-07 18:12
By now many of you will be aware that my second novel, After Black, is out there with Amazon available to read. Sorry if you’ve had any overload! Today is its designated ‘birthda… Read More
2019-11-30 18:44
On the local news here in the Scottish Borders, viewers voted for their favourite Scot’s word and this actually tallies with the Scottish Book Trust’s findings. That word is drei… Read More
2019-11-10 17:34
It feels time for another weighty topic, so I must be having withdrawal symptoms from writing them ;>) I got the idea for this theme when someone I help through my volunteering recently s… Read More
2019-10-14 13:25
Some eclectic news for you this week. The last couple of weeks have been quite intense on the publishing side with choosing and tweaking a book cover design for After Black and pushing on t… Read More
2019-09-29 10:00
‘Tis time for a blog post from me after a few weeks of quiet and I was casting around for a subject I could get stuck into with gusto with a topic close to my heart. My creative effor… Read More
2019-08-31 16:56
This is a continuation of the theme of what the various stages are like in the journey of writing a novel, and that time has come around again because I’ve finally settled on what I wa… Read More
2019-08-06 15:34
I’ve been out of regular blogging and writing rhythm over the last few weeks with family commitments as my mother isn’t well, and I’ve been driving to my home town in Durha… Read More
2019-07-20 19:06
The last few weeks have taken me away from my usual blogging, working, and life routine due to family commitments, but I’ve been doing some interesting reading which was a source of a… Read More
2019-06-29 18:49
This will be a very eclectic harvest today, but will the reflect the good and the bad of the last two weeks for me. From serious toothache and emergency trips to the dentist, to finishing a… Read More
2019-06-15 16:42
I’ve got to admit for many years I’ve tended towards black and white thinking. Things were fine or things were awful. It was a case of friend or foe, right or wrong, yin and yan… Read More
2019-06-01 17:06
This last two weeks have been pulling my mind and heart in different directions, so a random harvest post is certainly in order – from volunteering in social care tensions, to m… Read More
2019-05-18 19:11
I can’t believe I haven’t done a post on this topic, but after getting the idea and then checking, the answer is no, I have not. So it’s about time! I would argue that com… Read More
2019-05-04 17:57
I thought I would do an ongoing series of posts on works in progress, along with the random harvest series. So much of what we do day to day, whether with our creativity or otherwise, can b… Read More
2019-04-21 09:58
We’ve probably all heard of music and movement from schooldays. I can just about remember being in the assembly hall at junior school, hearing strange music and walking around in curv… Read More
2019-04-06 21:30
The last few weeks have seen me ploughing on with editing my novel, meeting friends for chats with one crucial spin off applicable to my editing, weird weather changes, reaching out to long… Read More
2019-03-24 12:10
A few years ago I came across an article online which attempted to sum up the essential characteristics of creative people. I passed it to an artist friend for her thoughts and we both felt… Read More
2019-03-09 17:35
Have any of you had this said to you? Have you said it to yourself, perhaps? I bet the meaning behind the phrase and the very tone of it were quite different in the two cases. Well, since a… Read More
2019-02-23 17:42
When I was doing my art and design course at the local college, back in 2000, the graphic design and illustration tutor told us we needed to collect visual resources for our ideas and refer… Read More
2019-02-09 18:59
As I sat at my kitchen table this last week, a table piled high with a thick stack of folders which had been extracted from that cardboard box of my recently deceased aunt, well after the b… Read More
2019-01-26 17:53
Now that I’ve finished the main draft of After Black, I’ve been free to decide what to get stuck into next, in order to dovetail the new with the more routine editing process of… Read More
2019-01-19 20:11
This week I’ve been labelling my artworks on Pinterest, which is a website tool and image bank for all creatives of any persuasion (and that includes writers) both for your own work an… Read More
2019-01-12 18:03
I’ve never been keen on the beginning of a new year. For self-employed and self-motivated by necessity creative folks, it seems to me there is always a bit of a pile up in one’s… Read More
2019-01-05 19:58
A Very Happy New Year To You!
Well, I set myself a target of finishing my first draft of my second novel, After Black, to be before Christmas. Due to family commitments which I discus… Read More
2018-12-15 17:04
This week has been a bizarre and challenging one. From the death of an estranged aunt, to reminders of divorce, to readings on the psychology of Gestalt therapy, I’ve been wading my w… Read More
2018-12-08 17:34
Hello again!
Relationships have been very much on my mind over the last few weeks with quite a lot of reflection going on, so as there’s a varied crop of these ponderings, a random har… Read More
2018-11-10 17:06
With the battle of procrastination to overcome to get on with your creative work, you’d think taking a break from it would be a easy thing to do – so why isn’t it? Well, f… Read More
2018-11-03 19:44
Writing short stories is what we did in class at school, and we no doubt avidly read short stories as children in our favourite genres or in collections by our favourite authors. I’ve… Read More
2018-10-27 17:33
The only poetry that’s ever truly enchanted me happens to be from the Romantic Period in literature, which originated in Europe at the end of the 18th century. It was all about intros… Read More
2018-10-20 18:40
Picture if you will a small bow fronted shop in Dickensian London with a dark interior. And despite the lack-lustre window display behind the leaded glass panes, if you venture across the t… Read More
2018-10-13 16:32
(A rather cryptic sounding post coming up, but you can blame my cold!)
The last two weeks have been comprised of my having been deprived of the company of my beloved red car after it needed… Read More
2018-10-06 17:14
A couple of years ago I found an interesting book called Defining Moments : Breaking Through Tough Times by psychotherapist, Dorothea McArthur, published in 2014. It was the title that drew… Read More
2018-09-29 14:21
I recently found myself reading writer, Charlotte Brontë’s biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published in 1857, approximately two yea… Read More
2018-09-03 11:43
You might be interested in an interview I did recently for fellow writer and blogger, Ari Meghlen. Many thanks for featuring me, Ari.
Ari writes really useful and generous posts on writing… Read More
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