September Favourites

A Monthly Resource Round Up

When you are on a book deadline to try and concoct the end of a proposal, just to get it over the line, your universe becomes very small very quickly. It’s your own citadel - and time spent in your own head, without much of an outlet, can be… draining.

September has been extraordinarily busy for this reason; not many people realise book writing has to be done alongside your day job. All the revisions, the querying, the agenting, the process of rejection after rejection - sometimes I do wonder if it’ll all be worth it in the end. It’s why I’ve had to be a lot more organised than usual, too.

The work of other people - especially poets - is where I have found a lot of comfort this month.

London has a poetry pharmacy that has newly opened - the idea being to bring yourself ‘relief’ from whatever daily stressor or turbulence of experience. I was delighted by the emphasis on women writers across the spectrum of the emotion wheel - you choose, say, grief, and you can buy tiny bottles with verses in capsule form. Books are also on hand, too.

Along with

Salena Godden

at

With Love, Grief and Fury

, there’s also people such as

Nikita Gill

of

How to Survive An Existential Crisis

. I ended up with a pill bottle of distilled Sylvia Plath. You do not do, you do not do…

October will look quite different. I have a magazine to file and two weeks recuperation from a scheduled surgery; everything on here has been scheduled in advance. I just won’t be online to interact at all. If you’d be open to supporting my work admist time off, you can buy me a coffee here - or share these posts with your social media network.