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Author Archives: sunshinescot
Birds of a Feather
On March 24th, a friend and I got together over Zoom. We’d both initiated lockdown the previous week, as we both have multiple sclerosis, and thought we might like to use the time to collaborate on some sort of creative … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing
Tagged collaboration, creative writing, fiction writing, lockdown, Multiple Sclerosis, Scotland
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When Pain Doesn’t Define Your Story
I’m thrilled to be leading an online fiction writing workshop with Glasgow Women’s Library on June 25th. The one-hour workshop is designed for women who experience chronic pain and offers an opportunity for participants to try out fiction writing as … Continue reading
Illness: A Narrative in Four Parts, Parts Three and Four
I’m very grateful to The Polyphony for serialising my essay on being diagnosed and living with multiple sclerosis. I much prefer writing fiction, but over the last three years I’ve had to push the boundaries of my comfort zone and … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Sclerosis, PhD
Tagged creative non-fiction, creative writing, hybrid essay, memoir, Multiple Sclerosis, Scotland
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Illness: A Narrative in Four Parts, Part Two
My four-part hybrid essay is a piece of memoir that explores my experience of being diagnosed with, and living with, multiple sclerosis. In part two: I’m moved from the emergency receiving unit to the skin ward (because there’s a bed … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Sclerosis, Scotland
Tagged creative writing, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Scotland, writing
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Illness: A Narrative in Four Parts
I’m a fiction writer. It’s what makes me happy. But sometimes I write fact. A case in point is an essay I’ve written for my doctoral project entitled Illness: A Narrative in Four Parts. My essay is being serialised this … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Sclerosis, Uncategorized
Tagged chronic illness, creative writing, hybrid essay, life with MS, memoir, MS, writing
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Filling the Days
A friend sent me a message yesterday to ask if I could offer any tips on “the craft of keeping to a routine and filling your days whilst maintaining good well-being in all its forms” during this difficult time. I … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Sclerosis, Scotland
Tagged isolation, Multiple Sclerosis, quarantine, transverse myelitis, writing
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Hello 2019
Part one I’m not the resolution sort and yet January seems to have brought with it a desire to drink more water and less wine; to get down to the part of my DFA (Doctor of Fine Arts) project that … Continue reading
National Poetry Day
When I was first diagnosed, I found that writing poetry (in the loosest sense of the word) was a useful way to process some of the strange stuff that happens when you have a disease munching on your brain and spine. … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Sclerosis
Tagged creative writing, Multiple Sclerosis, Poetry, Relapsing Remitting MS
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A Letter A Day… Y
This is day 32 of ‘A Letter A Day’. The last day. It therefore seems fitting that I end on the first letter I received (although, when I chose to post the letters alphabetically I hadn’t joined those dots, so it’s merely … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, MS, MS Diagnosis, Multiple Sclerosis, University of Glasgow
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