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Jan 8, 2021

Imagining an ark — for writers, and life

Almost at the end of week 5 of the first lockdown (how long ago that seems!), life seemed to be a roller-coaster of emotions, shock and emotional fatigue, yet punctuated by extraordinary moments of connection, even of transcendence. Each morning our stranded-with-us house guest would sit on the slate wall…

Writing

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Imagining an ark — for writers, and life
Imagining an ark — for writers, and life
Writing

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Dec 4, 2020

Between longing and haunting: an advent for writers

We are entering the season of Advent, a time of longing and anticipation; a time of looking back to what haunts us; a time to redefine and face the present moment. …

Advent

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Between longing and haunting: an advent for writers
Between longing and haunting: an advent for writers
Advent

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Nov 20, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Part 2: Enough To live from a sense of abundance rather than lack, is to be rich. The discernment to know what is unnecessary in life, what is merely superfluous, what is more than enough, is crucial to claiming the time and space to create. As Wendell Berry puts it: Wisdom, it seems…

Creativity

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Why writers need the art of minimums
Why writers need the art of minimums
Creativity

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Oct 25, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Part 1: between the superfluous and the indispensable You can be anyone, but you can’t be everything. You can make choices, but you can’t do it all. ‘Everything’ is one of the most insidious myths of our time. Doing it all and having it all dangled before us at every turn. Adverts are rife on every social media…

Enough

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Why writers need the art of minimums
Why writers need the art of minimums
Enough

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Oct 23, 2020

Changing the story to be the ancestors the earth desires

In The-World Ending Fire, essayist and poet, Wendell Berry raises a rallying cry against compromising with myths that are destroying the earth. We are destroying our … land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction…

Wring Life

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Changing the story to be the ancestors the earth desires
Changing the story to be the ancestors the earth desires
Wring Life

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Oct 9, 2020

Why writing embodies a multiplicity of conversation

We are kith with all life. Our connections are to all — everywhere and always what defines life is relationship. Mindfulness may slow us down, make us more aware, but it is our bodifulness that often goes unsung and under-nurtured. To relate, fully and with attention, demands all our senses. Attending to the networks of life

Writing Life

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Why writing embodies a multiplicity of conversation
Why writing embodies a multiplicity of conversation
Writing Life

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Sep 25, 2020

Why writers need unselfing

To see beyond the self, to see the journeys others are making, without judgement, requires what Iris Murdoch, in The Sovereignty of Good, calls ‘unselfing’. The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the…

Writing Life

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Why writers need unselfing
Why writers need unselfing
Writing Life

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Sep 11, 2020

Why writers need integrity:

Part 2: taking risks when the world is unravelling Being an artist or writer is emotionally, spiritually and intellectually demanding. If we are working with a sense of vision and integrity it is all the more so. But what when we are working not only without automatic fame and approval, but in difficult and extraordinary times? The difficulty might…

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Why writers need integrity:
Why writers need integrity:
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Aug 28, 2020

Why writers need integrity

Part 1: creating, not catering Creative life is a privilege. Recently, I read a manifesto for the creative life that disgusted me. It oozed advantage and entitlement. Life is simple? Not for those whose homes have burnt in bush fires due to ecological degradation. Not for single parents working two or three minimum wage jobs…

Writing

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Why writers need integrity
Why writers need integrity
Writing

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Aug 14, 2020

Why writers need a language of attentiveness

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom…

Writing Life

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Why writers need a language of attentiveness
Why writers need a language of attentiveness
Writing Life

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Jan Fortune

Jan Fortune

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Editor, author, feminist & part-time nomad. Helping others develop their writing life and practice. Blog @ https://janfortune.com/

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