Why No Wriggling?

No Wriggling Out of Writing was started as a blog in 2010. I was lucky enough to find it grow in popularity as the years went on, as people engaged with my stories of family history discoveries (murder, madness and general things beginning with m…) and my love of medical history and poetry - especially John Keats. I would also review books and pick random topics to write on, to stop myself procrastinating (and thereby ‘wriggling out of writing’.)

I expect it to be more of the same here really - with additional thoughts on the meaning of landscape to my writing, my attempts at fiction, and my life as someone with rather fragile mental health. I will also upload interviews with authors, poets, historians and other wordsmiths as a podcast. Talking Books has been a local radio show for more than a decade, and I have met some wonderful writers by making it.

So please subscribe and tell me what you think. The blog was a way to hone my skills as a writer, and by the end of this year I will have five books to my name:

Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War’s legacy for Britain’s mental health

Death, Disease and Dissection. The life of a surgeon-apothecary 1750-1850

John Keats: Poetry, Life & Landscapes

What Would Jane Do?

The Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche

I am proud of them all.

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About me…

I am a freelance writer of non-fiction (so far), a ghostwriter and a proofreader. I am also a speaker on the subject of shell shock during and after the Great War and on medical history during the early years of the 19th century.

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