by Sarah Tinsley | Feb 1, 2020 | Blog
You may have noticed a large gap since I last wrote a blog. I certainly have. I’m currently working my way (very slowly, baby/job/rest of life permitting) through The Artist’s Way. It’s a wonderful book that is forcing me to stop and look at when I really stopped...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog
Over the past few weeks, something strange has happened. In the tiny bubbles of time I get between work and baby, I’ve started to write again.At first, it wasn’t much. A few scenes that barely reached 300 words. Some thoughts, a memory, nothing substantial. But it was...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
My shelf is in danger of falling down. We put it up to replace the bedside tables, so it hovers above our heads, laden with all the stuff I used to cram into those drawers. A basket filled with far too many tubes of half-finished hand cream, assorted earphones, toe...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jul 1, 2017 | Blog
Each time I’ve moved in the last five years, my writing desk has always gone next to a window. In four different houses, in four different boroughs of London, I’ve looked out over the street for inspiration, a quiet moment, or sometimes just to be nosey.I did try...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
On a dog walk with my sister recently, she vented an uncomfortable but pertinent truth. Why is it, she asked me, as we trudged through a bracken-crusted wood, that people throw themselves into work, spending hours and hours doing things that make them stressed and...