Author Archives: Emily Garside

Tom Hanks waving a typewriter is a writing moodThis was not the blog I planned to put up today. I had another one edited and ready to go. It’s not a blog I have time to write. But it’s one born out of passion and frustration and those are usually the best/worst ones right? This reallyContinueContinue reading “Pick Me Choose Me Love Me- on writing, on giving up, on kindness.”

Add captionThis week I finished teaching a 6-week course, I’m in the middle of teaching another 6-week block of another and I’ve had a few ad-hoc workshops around that too. And after what turned out to be an almost full year away from teaching for the first time in a decade, and the general 2020-nessContinueContinue reading “What Teaching Again Taught Me”

Across September I ran or walked a mile every day. This was part of a challenge set by my friend Jeff. A huge advocate of running for mental as well as physical wellbeing, Jeff himself is running every day this decade…so a month seemed like the least I could do challenge wise.  Why do it? ContinueContinue reading “What Running for 30 Days taught me”

In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “‘What if I don’t think about the books’ Fear and finishing project book.”

Across September I ran or walked a mile every day. This was part of a challenge set by my friend Jeff. A huge advocate of running for mental as well as physical wellbeing, Jeff himself is running every day this decade…so a month seemed like the least I could do challenge wise. Why do it? It’s 2020ContinueContinue reading “What Running for 30 Days taught me”

 In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “\'What if I don\'t think about the books\' Fear and finishing project book.”

 In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “\’What if I don\’t think about the books\’ Fear and finishing project book.”

 Usually, when I write one of these it’s a bold, brash ‘gobby bisexual’ flag-waving exercise. And that’s important. I don’t have any illusion that what I say matters in the bigger picture, but if being a gobby, flag-waving bisexual has helped someone once, then it’s worth it. In fact, a good friend of mine readContinueContinue reading “The Wine Not the Label”

visual representation of me looking at edits So project Angels book enters its final weeks (sort of) its due at the publishers on 1st October. And after a long long time working on it, failing, stalling, giving up. I might just have something to finally send. So I thought blogging these stages might be useful ifContinueContinue reading “Fuck You I\'m a Prophet (and I will finish this book)”

visual representation of me looking at edits So project Angels book enters its final weeks (sort of) its due at the publishers on 1st October. And after a long long time working on it, failing, stalling, giving up. I might just have something to finally send. So I thought blogging these stages might be useful ifContinueContinue reading “Fuck You I\’m a Prophet (and I will finish this book)”