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A Familiar Stranger

Author, Speaker & Coach Matthew Williams

Category: On Writing

Where Did THAT Come From?!? – On Creativity

14 August 20179 December 2019 Love, Laughter & TruthOn Writing

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…’ Thus begins the most popular creation account / story / myth (delete as applicable) in human history. The question of the origins of our creation[…]

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‘You Could Write a Book’ – And So He Did

4 August 20172 September 2018 MatthewOn Writing

‘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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Reading My Way Through Life

18 March 201730 December 2020 MatthewDepression & Mental Health

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

8 December 20162 September 2018 MatthewOn Writing

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

28 August 20162 September 2018 Love, Laughter & TruthOn Writing

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

24 July 2016 MatthewOn Writing

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

3 April 2016 MatthewOn 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

10 February 2016 MatthewDepression & Mental Health

“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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