So I lead a workshop @YorkLibrariesUK aimed at unlocking past memories to generate authentic writing. I'm thinking: fine for those considering writing memoir. What happens? A woman manages to articulate on paper and then, tearfully, reading it back to the group how, after all these years, it felt when she first saw her daughter with her own baby. A man articulates, on paper and out loud, how it felt to be pushed in a wheelchair and no one, no one at all looked at him - just at his carer, pushing him.
If ever we needed evidence that writing can be so, so much more than words on a page.
Still reeling. Ali x
