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Jan Fortune

Writing into abundance

Abundance is not a measurement. It’s not about having things, or acquiring ‘stuff’, Epicurus tells us, but about enjoying life, delighting…

Feb 14, 2024

Writing into abundance

Feb 14, 2024

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…

Jan 8, 2021

Imagining an ark — for writers, and life

Jan 8, 2021

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…

Dec 4, 2020

Between longing and haunting: an advent for writers

Dec 4, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Part 2: Enough

Nov 20, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Nov 20, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Part 1: between the superfluous and the indispensable

Oct 25, 2020

Why writers need the art of minimums

Oct 25, 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…

Oct 23, 2020

Changing the story to be the ancestors the earth desires

Oct 23, 2020

Why writing embodies a multiplicity of conversation

We are kith with all life.

Oct 9, 2020

Why writing embodies a multiplicity of conversation

Oct 9, 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…

Sep 25, 2020

Why writers need unselfing

Sep 25, 2020

Why writers need integrity:

Part 2: taking risks when the world is unravelling

Sep 11, 2020

Why writers need integrity:

Sep 11, 2020

Why writers need integrity

Part 1: creating, not catering

Aug 28, 2020

Why writers need integrity

Aug 28, 2020

Jan Fortune

Jan Fortune

I'm a writer, publisher & mentor, helping others develop their writing. I'm also and community herbalist & live in France. I blog @ https://janfortune.com/

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