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Don’t let fear keep you tied up
My trip is over. It’s hard to return from travelling, shifting from spontaneous movement back into a more fixed routine. But it’s a treat to know how much I’ve been missed. Thank you followers for all your wonderful messages! … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Travel
Tagged Adventure, Alice Munro, Brazil, Canada, Creative writing, Gabriela Blandy, how to write, Lake Huron, life, Memoir, New York, Photography, Travel, Workshops, Writers Resources, Writing process
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When you find yourself in a room with two strangers, having to fake an orgasm, it’s best to leave the country and change your life
I’m in the upper gallery of the Sheldonian Theatre, watching a graduation ceremony take place in Latin. Ad honorem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, the Vice-Chancellor intones, but I’m distracted by the fact that a few hours earlier I had to … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Acting, Audition, Gabriela Blandy, Graduation, how to write, Lisbon Story, Memoir, Mexico, Oxford, Photography, Poetry, Sheldonian Theatre, short story, travelling, Writing
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Exposure
During the rehearsals of a pantomime in a Scottish town, an infant is needed for the Spirit of the Mustard-pot. Ellen Terry’s father offers her services. He has acted both at Edinburgh and Glasgow, throughout the 1820s and 30s, and … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir
Tagged Acting, Ellen Terry, J B Priestly, Julia Margaret Cameron, Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul Festival, Photography
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Gabriela Blandy - The sense of a journey 