The Word Cloud

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  by Liss 1 year ago

  This really touched me Hisnibs :( Death of a loved one rocks your world so you just don't know anything any more. One thing I would say to you is: you're trying, and that is all you can do.
  
  Calligraphy is a great talent, i'm sure people will love it! Don't worry about whether it pleases other people, for now do it because you want to, because you feel it is a healer and because you enjoy it.
  As for writing, we all worry that we aren't good enough, me especially. This place is fantastic for getting feedback and support, it's been a lifeline for me.
  
  Confidence grows the more you write. Write and write and read and watch and over time your ideas will develop and batter the inside of your mind to be let out :)
  
  xx
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  by Weens 1 year ago

  I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I can't imagine how painful that must be for you. But you seem to have found some outlet in your artistic talents. I am very jealous of your calligraphy skills, I would love to be able to do that. As to your writing, start small. Write a paragraph, and then try expanding upon it. You don't have to write a full length novel, go for short stories. Entering short story competitions can be a help in giving you a deadline to work towards. As Liss says, write, write, read, read, watch and watch. It doesn't matter if your writing isn't as good as you would like at first, it's a start and it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else but you. From little acorns etc.
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  by Slowwriter 1 year ago

  Get thee to a creative writing group, Hisnibs! If you don't find the right one for you straight away you'll at least have some kind of fun and meet some interesting characters ;-) And the only way to get back into writing is to write - doesn't matter what you write; turn the shopping list into a diatribe and a letter of complaint to the local government into a novel. It doesn't matter if you leave pieces unfinished at this stage (you might return to them later) just have a happy time scribbling...and, read. Read a lot. See what's out there and choose your corners. Looking forward to reading some of your stuff. x
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  by Clockwise 1 year ago

  So sorry to hear about your wife. It's no wonder your finding it hard.
  I think its great your doing the calligraphy and artwork, and I'm sure no one will not like them, but even if they do art is about personal expression and not necessarily to make others happy.
  I suffer from the same thing as you 'plenty of ideas, but no confidence' but If you just write for yourself to start off with and do not show your work to anyone else for a while this will help you start writing again. Then if you do not like what you have written throw it away and nobody will be none the wiser.
  
  Hope this helped in some small way
  
  Matt - Clockwise
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  by Bren 1 year ago

  I am sorry for your recent loss. I cannot imagine the pain you must be going through.
  Have you thought about writing to your wife? A well known film star lost her husband about a year ago, there was an article in the Telegraph. She had written every feeling and moment to her husband. It can be therapeutic, if at times painful.
  Grief takes its own time and it seems that you are doing eveything you can to live with it. Good luck. Goodnight for now.
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  by Steve 1 year ago

  Hisnibs, thank you for sharing this here. It's a brave thing to do. I think that in your position I would feel exactly the same way. When everything is put in such stark perspective, it is all we can do to find meaning in anything. So many don't have a creative outlet to put their emotions into, but you have calligraphy, art and writing. Time will do the rest. Relating to writing specifically, there is a short piece on the Cloud called "Little Gods" which I and a few others have found inspiring. It's not at all religious, and if you fancy reading it, you can find it here:
  
  http://www.thewordcloud.org/magazine/read/little-gods_245.html
  
  Good luck with the art and calligraphy.
  Steve
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  by mike 1 year ago

  Dear Nibbs
  Is it difficult to fill your days? A colleague retired a few years ago and to fill a few days in the week, acts as a guide in a National Trust property. It's just an idea!
  I've only been to Kings Lynn and did a course at East Anglia University once. (I looked up Blickling on the Internet.)
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  by Blade 1 year ago

  That awful lost feeling will ease a bit as time goes by. Writing would be theraputic for you and it doesn't matter if it's disjointed, or not much good to start with. Write just for yourself for now. Maybe keep a journal.
  
  As awful as your feelings are now, they will be material for future writing.
  
  In the meantime love your life and know that you have people who care about you, even though we are strangers in a "virtual world" - we are all still real people.