Reincarnation within families
A pervasive observation reported by those who study reincarnation, is that ‘souls’ (for want of a better word) frequently reincarnate in groups. This is the principle on which my novel [...]
Identifying ‘locked-in’ syndrome
A new book claims that so-called ‘locked-in syndrome’ – in which someone in an apparently comatose or vegetative state is actually aware of what is going on around them – [...]
1. Create a writing realm
When my daughter is playing intensely, she always closes the door to her bedroom. It’s a way of ensuring no one breaks the spell of her imagination. Studies of successful [...]
How to beat writer’s block
One of the many surveys we’ve conducted at Mslexia was about writer’s block: how many women suffer from it, what form it takes, how they deal with a block when [...]
A bad first draft
Some of Mslexia’s most revealing surveys of women writers were those exploring what gets in the way of our writing. It turns out that procrastination looms large in the [...]
Uses of insomnia
In a recent essay on www.aeon.co, Scottish writer Karen Emslie has been investigating her own sleep patterns and has discovered that what she thought was troublesome insomnia – waking at [...]