Yes hibernation is definitely a thing, though I almost never recognise it until I'm out the other side of it! But I'm learning, and this year I let go of the stress I usually hold through the winter about not writing or being creative. I was so very relieved to feel the urge, to step outside myself & feel warmth on my skin!
I've used the code to book onto the Writers Festival because I've been looking for something to help me with an idea I've got for a fiction book! Very excited to be joining in.
This really resonates and echoes Katherine May’s ‘Wintering’ too which I found really comforting. What’s hard is naturally submitting to this in our always switched on, productivity culture. I’m trying to trust that in fallow periods there is a percolation of creativity going on and that’s it’s just as important, but it is hard. I love the turtles analogy.
Yes hibernation is definitely a thing, though I almost never recognise it until I'm out the other side of it! But I'm learning, and this year I let go of the stress I usually hold through the winter about not writing or being creative. I was so very relieved to feel the urge, to step outside myself & feel warmth on my skin!
I've used the code to book onto the Writers Festival because I've been looking for something to help me with an idea I've got for a fiction book! Very excited to be joining in.
This really resonates and echoes Katherine May’s ‘Wintering’ too which I found really comforting. What’s hard is naturally submitting to this in our always switched on, productivity culture. I’m trying to trust that in fallow periods there is a percolation of creativity going on and that’s it’s just as important, but it is hard. I love the turtles analogy.
Oh god yes to all of this x