Playing with Words

I spent a lovely morning yesterday with Coney writing friends on our monthly Zoom catch up. We chatted about how we're all coping through lockdown, juggling work and family responsibilities and shared our good news on the writing front. It was great to see such success for Coney Writers at the recent Waterways Storymaking Festival with two of us shortlisted (and subsequently winning prizes) across two of the three categories.

I've continued to bake my chocanana writing fuel muffins for our writing meetings throughout lockdown even though I obviously can't share them with the group. Early morning baking is such an important part of Coney catch ups for me - a ritual I want to keep going when we emerge through the other side of this awful time. My family are benefitting as there are more muffins for them! So over coffee and cake yesterday we did some writing exercises, played with words and stretched our creative muscles.

We're all looking forward to when we can actually meet up for real at Coney - hopefully we're getting closer to that day every day. In the meantime we have to make the most of things and are grateful for the encouragement we give each other and support we have in our small group in between our virtual meet ups, whether through sharing writing opportunity news or helping each other on a piece we're working on. It's the sign of a strong team that we've continued to stick closely together when the going is tough and I feel very blessed to be part of such a friendly supportive writing group.