An Arvon Foundation Writing Course
I have been wanting to do an Arvon writing course for years. When I had the time I simply did not have the money. When the money was not a problem it was because I was working so hard that I could not imagine giving a week of my hard earned holiday to something that did not involve the rest of my family. But suddenly earlier this year I realised that I could do it. I had the time. I had the money. Ian was going trekking with some friends in Norway. There was not even the faint residual guilt of going away and leaving him looking after everything. We would both go away. Nobody would look after anything at all. I knew I wanted to write non fiction and when I found that a course on creative non fiction was offered in one of the weeks when Ian was going to be away it seemed entirely meant. After years of writing with ease and pleasure, I have been struggling with writing the blog since my father died. Maybe it would give m...