Jay Griffiths is an award-winning British writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, Anarchipelago, A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape and Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression.
Tips
Reading is food for the mind. Eat — read —well, every day. Read a varied diet. Some books are for feasting,…
Exercises
Please read Jay’s exercise in conjunction with her tip (click here):
Go on a reading adventure….
Tips
Every piece of writing is a gift from the writer to the reader. Write in the spirit of the gift, and…
Exercises
Describe a thing from its point of view. Pick something from the living world, ideally not a human. Don’t use the…
Exercises
Decide on a subject for a short piece. Think about what that subject needs, in order to do justice to it….
Tips
This is one of those phrases that I find perplexing; it leaves one feeling that one’s voice is ‘lost’. Down behind…
