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The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook
By Wren James and the Climate Fiction Writers League with support from Climate Spring This is actually a journal, so it will be a perfect fit if you’re someone who likes to make notes, scribble and doodle. If you want tips about how to include anything related to climate in your writing, this is packed…
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Pocket Forests and Visualisation
The last IWC Climate Writing Session hosted by Alice Kinsella at the end of November turned out to be a cracker. The first guest was Catherine Cleary, a former journalist who now runs Pocket Forests Ireland. They help people develop forests on tiny pieces of land, in company gardens and communal green spaces. Their work…
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Raising Consciousness
In the process of planning my next novel, I have been searching about climate change and our connection to the planet. Using the keywords “climate conscious,” I found my way to the Climate Consciousness Summit. It was starting very soon, running during the COP 30 summit in Belém in Brazil. I spent a week…
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Focus
Deadlines work for me, excellently, impeccably. But what about when there is no deadline? When there is no outside push to do the work. A lot of time-wasting is what happens. I can’t call it procrastination because that’s done when there is a goal that is being avoided. This involves a complete blank on all…
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Make It Till You Make It
I heard Debbie Millman say this on the Mel Robbins podcast. It was almost a throwaway comment at the end of the podcast but it really resonated with me. Make it till you make it. It’s all you can really do.
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Clementine Crane Prefers Not To
Book Review Kristin Bair Alcove Press 2025 This is a book about a woman in her forties who experiences her first hot flash and is radicalized by it. Rather than continue stuffing all of the appointments and responsibilities for her three children and husband into her bursting chest cavity, she goes on strike. It’s an…
