Author Archives: Nicola Williams

I don’t normally write about such personal stuff as I know people are going through their own difficulties and tragedies but this has been building up and true to my writing heart this is how I deal with my emotions and thoughts, by releasing them onto a page. I’m not sure who, if anyone, willContinue reading “A long, hard journey…”

I heard this today on a podcast, it’s from Brene Brown. Hit me right in the gut… ‘Everyday ordinary moments that we steamroll right over, then looking for big moments but yet when we inevitably experience loss and grief in our lives it can really be defined by the loss of normalcy, the moments IContinue reading “This…”

A while ago I read this poem at work and thought of it again late last night after this week started with International Women’s Day. I work at The Reader, where literature sits at the very heart of what we do. Internally, we read as often as we can together as a team, it’s wonderful.Continue reading “‘Between starshine and clay…’”

I’ve not put pen to paper in a good while now, it’s difficult to carve out time when there’s an 18 month old running around and you’re trying to do your day job properly. Yes, what silly excuses, and the likely real truth is that 2020 has made it difficult to tap into that creativeContinue reading “A Little Reminder…”

Lots of things going round in my head at the moment, but nothing I can actually make sense of, very strange times. So for now, a quote from Tennyson to spread a bit of hope and reminding us  ‘to find’ and ‘not to yield’ Sending love, N.

This morning, I managed to have another read though the Letters to Note anthology and Letter No. 079 is pretty good, especially for budding writers. In fact, even a published writer would likely find truth within the words and make use of the advice. This particular letter, written in 1934, is a correspondence between Ernest Hemingway andContinue reading “‘Write and write truly’”