Update on me

suncatcher

Hi I am feeling loads better. Arther has calmed down for a bit. I really enjoyed my night out watching The importance of being earnest AT Birmingham old rep theatre. I had a lift back my friend had two places in car and she let me have a place as i was unwell. I am so glad i went. Thanks for the support and advice you have sent me.
I have decided to start writing my experiences of ra with the help of my creative writing teacher. My memory is bad sometimes and i am worried i might forget things and wish to create something i can look back on and have to keep for family who wish to see it. I have never shared my poems on the disease with anyone who does not suffer with it. My teacher has never seen them. My friends in the creative writing class are in the process of writing their own biographical pros. They have inspired and encouraged me to do the same. Their experiences have touched me and they have had more to deal with. I have told her i will share my poems so she can help me. I hope to ad other poetry related to me and write, why i wrote them. I don't know where to begin. I feel it will be a good start. Any advice would be appreciated. THNAKYOU FROM JOANNE

frogmorton

Hi Joanne

great to see you posting l have missed you!

Good arthritis is leaving you be for a while...long may that last

As for your writing...l have read some of yours on here and have to say where to start??? at the beginning

How to start? from the heart and you wont go far wrong.

Love

Toni xx

lalla

Agree with Toni, just let it pour from the heart Take care Linda

stickywicket

I'm very pleased you had a good night out and that the arthritis has calmed down a bit.

As for the creative writing - good for you. Start wherever you wish with whatever is uppermost in your mind. You can always edit it later, add bits before and after (Thank God for computers!) or even change the whole format without losing anything. The main thing is to start and keep writing. Good luck! Let's know how you get on with it.

elnafinn

Hi Joanne

I remember that you were going to the theatre, so pleased it was a lovely evening out for you.

I think that is an excellent idea to write about your journey through life with "arthur", both for yourself, your family and perhaps others too. You have shared some of your poems with us and others would benefit from reading them as well. Once you get started you will find it easier and you will of course have the help of the teacher too.

This project will keep you busy and out of mischief.

Love
Elna x

skezier

hi Joanne,

wow good to see you and so glad things are a lot better for you now.

you know i thing writing it down and turning some o it into poems is a rally good idea and i do the same,..... got realms of the fool's diary on the pc it somehow helps to make sense of some of it as well as helping to get some into the box and nail the lid shut.

hope your chicks grew well? 2 of mine are still peeping despite being this big.... i wish they would stop cus it excites the overzealous chicken rounding up dog......

hope so much you will not be a satranger her ad don;t forget if you have any poems you would like to share a lot of us would like to see them. leaving a big to have seen you again and a ((((( ))))) cris xx

bubbadog

Hi Joanne, Glad Arther has given you a break and that you can do what you love doing. Great you enjoyed your night out in Birmingham! (my end of the woods! I live in Redditch!) So pleased your doing better good luck with the writing keep us updated on it. bubbadog/Amanda.

suncatcher

Hi thanks for my replies. Yes it will keep me out of mischief writing. I have written some. I have thought I have loads of thing about the garden. poetry and good memories. The garden was left for a while when i got pregnant with son. Arther came in my life six months later. The garden has had ups and downs and has helped me with depression a type of theropy. and has seen good and bad times so its going to feature around it. with poems and ways i help myself included. I got the idea at least. well gonna look round site before i get shoed off as the rest of the family want it see ya joanne

dreamdaisy

Oh suncatcher, how lovely to hear that things are improving for you - long may that last. I think the writiing is a good idea - I find it a release as it helps to get things out of my mind: it eases the pressures of life. DD

suncatcher

Yes dream daisy writing does help release emotions thats for sure. am enjoying it thanks joanne