When I looked up at the ceiling in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, this is what I saw. Words do fail you sometimes when you see something beautiful or extraordinary. It’s important to look and absorb the experience and later reflect on it. Stored away in your mind it may resurface when you least expect… Read More The last thing Keats saw before he died

See what you can find to inspire you in your writing within a ten-mile (rural), five-mile (town) or one-mile (city) radius from home. Read Dee’s Ten Miles from Home Diary Maybe you are travelling somewhere further afield. To work, to shop or to visit friends or relatives. Treat each journey as a new adventure. See… Read More Why not set yourself the Ten Miles from Home challenge?

All around you. A writer should always be on the look out for a story. You only have to keep your eyes, ears and mind open to all that is around you, to find something to inspire you – to set you off on a path of discovery through your writing. ‘Write about what you… Read More Where to find inspiration