Healing Words
Workshop writers on writing:

I had forgotten how much I enjoy writing - it has been a very long time since I last did.
For me writing can be soothing, it can make me angry, it can make me cry. Sometimes I can bare my soul, othertimes I can't.

I try to write as honestly as I can to allow people into my funny, peculiar world.

Writing can be so therapeutic
and allows me to express my feelings and frustrations.








Why I like to write

To express myself
To show off
To impress others
To improve my understanding of myself
To be creative
To use my mind
To learn to thing again
To have autonomy
To gain a sense of achievement






I used to think poetry and certain writing was way over my head, but now I can now look at writing in a different way and understand some of it. My writing isn't as elegant some people's, but I never thought I'd be writing any form of poetry!!
My daughter had to write a haiku for homework and for once I was able to help, which made me feel good!!
qI write because my head is full of stuff, like an overcrammed attic. Like an attic there is an awful lot of unwanted, used and worn stuff; stuff I have gathered and gleaned and been given over more than half a century.

Searching through my head amongst the dust and debris and discarded odds and ends I now and again find something useful, memorable - to me - and maybe even beautiful.

It is amazing how much can be stored in an average sized head but, as I get older, I feel I am running out of space so the best thing is to have a clear out and sort out what is worth keeping.

So I write.

I don't always like what I have written and can be disturbed by what I see in print. Sometimes I describe and picture scenes, events, feelings and thoughts. Sometimes I write little rhyming ditties and sometimes I think I may have written a proper poem.

Everyone has creativity within them. Everyone needs the impetus, the encouragement, the means to express it in whatever way they choose.

My way is with words and writing.		q


I sometimes get an idea I'd like to expand in words and see how far I get and just let it take me wherever. I don't work it out much beforehand and surprise myself sometimes how a topic idea translates into words and how it sounds from the page. I can then sometimes reveal certain parts of myself and then I can understand better how I think and feel. I don't think I'd have the stamina, perseverance and confidence to be a proper writer but I'm content to find out more about myself as I try to do some writing. It is nice to be in a group to get the motivation and other people are prepared to share their feelings and thoughts.		q

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