Showing posts with label Mary Bradford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Bradford. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 July 2020

The Write Stuff with... Mary T. Bradford

Last month I posted on social media offering authors the opportunity to be featured on the blog with their experiences of writing, publishing or promoting their books during lockdown. Today it's my pleasure to welcome Irish author Mary T. Bradford as my latest guest.

I regret Sulking

I was buzzing with words, thoughts and ideas. I was on a whirlwind of creativity, story after story after story were spilling out. My mind was overflowing and I tried my best to keep up. The dynamism of my fellow writing friends and classmates had me productive to a level that I thought I’d never have a dry well again. But I did and not in the way I thought. 

I started a new story. The character, Michal was Polish and living in Ireland with his wife. He and I were getting on well, the connection flowing until he stopped up without warning. Nothing came from him, no whiff or hint of what was next, he had disappeared. 

I wondered why, I asked the questions, I re-read what I had but I was without inspiration. Yet I knew it wasn’t me, it was Michal. 

So I went about my business. I painted bedside lockers, the main bathroom, cleared the garden, and baked, everything I usually keep putting off got sorted. In fact, I enjoyed my new found freedom so much from not being at the beck and call of words, I revelled in this me time.