Morning Pages

In The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron advice her readers to start writing Morning Pages. Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning – every morning. Here is what Cameron says: There is no better way to open a writing voice than to write regularly & repetitively. The first page and…

Kathleen Jamie on writing a book

One of the finest Nature Writers I have encountered so far, is Scottish Kathleen Jamie. I started getting more and more interested in this field of writing, as I – to my surprise – discovered there being very much nature in my own writing. But for this genre of writing to be interesting, as I…

Best Books for Writers

In the beginning of July I had some splendid writing-days consisting of me writing my own story over/across/on-top-of a beautiful story I was reading (almost like a palimpsest). I read and wrote side by side, letting the words I read inspire & drive my own thoughts and feelings. old manuscript containing the earliest surviving writings…