How Writing Improves Your Health

9 Questions To Help Start Writing

Writing to exercise your mind requires you to be active, to move, to get going. This week's episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast is about questions to help get going with your writing practice. Can you take that first step, what are you going to discover, what are you willing to overcome, to let go of? Join me as I go through some of the questions I ask myself and the answers that keep me going with my writing exercise, which has given me more moments of joy than any other activity I've ever done.

How Writing Improves Your Health

If we’re to make the best of our time we need to be healthy in mind as well as body. If we’re going to fulfil our role as this amazing, unprecedented generation we have to stay fit in mind as well as body. Writing is such a great way to exercise your mind and improve your overall health that I wanted to share my experience in this podcast.

10 Things You Can Start Writing About

Writing is a way to discover meaning in the world, to explore our memories, and to express our insights and feelings - what truly makes us human. And writing is about movement - moving your pen, moving your cursor. And it's about going – going to where the spirit takes you that day. This episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast discusses examples of things you can write about to exercise your mind.

How I Started Writing For Myself

This week's episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast is about how I discovered the wonder of writing for its own sake, personal writing as I call it. And how personal writing, writing for yourself, is different from other kinds of writing. The episode delves into how personal writing is a way into exploring and discovering new possibilities. How it opened up a whole vista I’d never thought about, never seen was there, or had the time to explore before this.

What Helps To Keep Writing?

I didn’t start writing by accident. I didn’t wake up one day and realize I was writing. I decided to start writing, and continue writing because of the value it gives me, which has been way beyond my expectations. In this episode of Writing Is Great! I talk about some of the things that work, and have worked, for me to keep going with my writing practice.