Category: Writing

I recently shared a ‘break-up letter‘, where I broke up with writing. It was an example for a writing workshop with students at Kolding School of Design. Today we worked with love letters, and I quickly jotted one down while the students were also writing: Dear writing, I know I’ve been hard on you at…

This is an example of a ‘break-up letter’ I wrote for a playful writing exercise at the Exploring Design Professions internship course at Kolding School of Design 2024. We used the familiar method of break-up letters and love letters to explore both what we hate and love about writing, what makes writing deeply challenging and…

‘The work starts to feel like work, and for most writers that is the smooch of death. Writing is at its best – always, always, always – when it is a kind of inspired play for the writer. I can write in cold blood if I have to, but I like it best when it’s…

‘Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all—ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must…

In this journey of transformation and becoming that I have embarked on with the PhD, writing has been one my biggest blessings – and one of my most painful curses. I love writing so much that my world almost falls apart when I suddenly can’t write. Then I spend hours and days just staring at…