Better Together

It's great to be back with my online creative writing group - we had a long break over Christmas. To get started, we wrote acrostics about something that makes us feel good and shared them.

Sometimes connection is the spark you need and it certainly flicked a switch for me this week. January had me stuck in dark doldrums, thoughts twisted inwards. Meeting like minds reminded me how to escape into my writing again.

So, having sent my story off, to hopefully find a place in the hearts of others, I am writing on. Building on foundations of experience and history, taking that leap into the unknown - only this time, not alone.

Happy arms

Understand the need

Giving Warmth

Sharing love

Twist and Shout

Twist the dibber, twist the dibber

Make a hole, make a hole

Push it deeper, push it deeper

Plant the bulb

Roots point down

Shoots stick up

Hole full of earth

Water and hope

Without You

In a creative writing zoom this week I wrote a Reverse Snowball. The prompt was 'on the beach'. It's funny how random images come... randomly!

So here's what happened when I closed my eyes and let the pen take over

Waves wash the footprints away

Shingle shifts and sand sinks

Lapping, cleansing, shimmering, sparkling

Calm - turbulent - calm

Back forth

Waves