Hello World and Happy Sunday!

This week I have I have been doing a lot of writing by hand. I came across two YouTube videos (linked below) about the benefits of writing by hand. Even though I am pretty consistent when it comes to my daily morning pages, I usually tend to do my creative writing on my laptop. This week I decided to switch it up and get out my Basquiat moleskin and fountain pen and found the process a lot more calming, I got distracted less often and there was much more flow between the sentences.

I used to think typing on a laptop would be easier as it’ll capture my thoughts more quickly and yes, my thoughts would come out rapidly but they would also be very disjointed. However, I’ve found that by having a bit of a slower pace that comes from writing my hand, it allows myself the time to really think about the next, most appropriate phrase to push my story along.

The start of the week I tried to immerse myself in more short stories and I started well at the beginning of the week, continuing my reading of Leone Ross’ short story collection (link below) but it did peter off around midweek.

On Saturday I began a 75 day challenge which includes a lot of wellness intentions as well as a creative writing project which consists of writing a short story (or towards a short story) by hand for at least 1 pomodoro (25m) per day.

If you’ve got any inspirations from your week you’d like to share below or read/engaged with any of the influences I’ve written below, leave a comment and let me know.

Until next week,

Stay Curious!
Lx

–SUNDAY ROUND UP–

       A few things I’ve found useful/inspiring this week 

Consumption

Videos

Why I Write First Drafts By Hand

How & Why I Hand-Write Everything

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Books

Paper Girls Vol 1 by Bryan K Vaughn and Cliff Chiang

Come Let Us Sing Anyway and other stories by Leone Ross

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Podcast

London Writer’s Podcast #012: Anthony Anaxagorou– Push Past Self-Doubt and Think Like a Poet – exercise within this episode inspired this week’s creation

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Film

Little Women (2019) dir Greta Gerwig

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Articles

11 Short Story Forms to Expand Your Writing Practice

How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Become a Better Novelist

How to Become a Better Writer: 5 Reasons Short Stories Will Help Your Craft

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Course

BBC Maestro Storytelling with Alan Moore

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Tools

Pomodoro Timer- great tool for just getting started with absolutely anything!

Creation

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