‘You could write a book.’ It was the Leeds Festival in August 2006 and I was, not to put too fine a point on it, fucked. I was two weeks into my first absence from[…]
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Category: On Writing
Letting the Light In – Reading My Way Through Life
We define ourselves in many ways: our job, our personal roles – father, friend, partner – and by the things that we do for ourselves (minds out of the gutter please), those things that take[…]
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Empty Page
White empty page, blank but for promise A pen that is poised, summoning words to flow from it Who knows where they’re born, from which well they spring How they bleed from the ink Revealing[…]
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Transforming Wounds Into Wisdom
Image: The Revenant Everybody hurts. Not the most original of insights perhaps – especially since you will have heard it sung approximately 3.2 million times by now – but there is a huge difference between[…]
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Life: What’s That All About Then? – This is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
After nearly 8 months of blogging it’s about time I got serious and discussed the meaning of life. No more fannying around talking about trifling matters like divorce, death and depression, it’s time to ask[…]
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Me, My Blog & I – The Joy of Writing
My name’s Matthew and I’m a writer. We all play a number of roles and adopt a number of labels in our lives, some of which are more fulfilling than others. On the face of[…]
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The Cathartic Nature of Writing
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway. It’s funny how life can be. Two months ago I felt a compulsion to write. I[…]
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