Creative Writing -- the Art of Being, and Becoming a Writer
Creative writing has been a mainstay of my career as a music researcher, author, and occupational therapist. I love crafting words into descriptions of the environments that I belong to, within: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM sector), and working from home. My clients each have unique environments in which they study, work, live, recreate, and socialise. Our social environment is our creative milieu--the context in which we meet, collaborate for research, writing, or therapy. Being and Becoming Writers Each person brings their own unique lens to their creative writing milieu. Listening and describing our surroundings is creative and empirical--based on what we see, hear, smell, taste. Our feelings and thoughts are complex, built from our experience, recollections, conscious and unconscious ideas. We respond in various ways, and we can choose to select aspects which we want to share with others, or ignore. This is our focus and our intentions for writ...