* Published in The Guardian This month it will be ten years since my memoir, Grief Girl, was published and only now am I beginning to understand the havoc it wreaked upon my life. Before writing a memoir about my parents dying in a road accident when I was 14 I went around saying, “So my parents died, what’s the big deal?” I wholeheartedly believed that I had come away unscathed. When the topic of parents came up in conversation I would say, “Oh, my parents are retired; they

Blogging concerns me because good writing takes time, and some distance, before publication. First drafts are invariably pieces of shit. But that’s what blogging is, right, shitty first drafts? Maybe I just have to accept that and get started. So, here goes… warts, stupid thoughts, bad grammar and all. Aaahhh!!!!! #writing #blogging