Category Archives: Writing

Established

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

Two years ago, against all the odds, 15 Dark Angels wrote and published a collective novel. Keeping Mum was a project that could very easily have come unstuck, but it didn’t and we were rightly proud of what might even … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Second wind

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve mentioned here my friend and neighbour, Fiona Ritchie, before. Fiona is an authority on the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland. From her tiny studio in Dunkeld she presents the most-listened-to Celtic music programme on US radio, the weekly … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Dem bones

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a book by Julia Cameron called The Right To Write. Since then I have been reading what I think of as its older sister, Writing Down The Bones, by Natalie Goldberg. I’ve been … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Morning pages

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

Some years ago I read a book by the American writer Julia Cameron called The Right To Write. She is internationally famous for The Artist’s Way, which offers a 12-step guide to creative living, but I was drawn to the … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Five lessons

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

We never stop learning. A cliché, but only because it’s true, or at least should be. So I thought it might be instructive to reflect on a few personal highlights of the past year by asking myself what I have … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

Dark matter

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve been doing some pre-Christmas stock-taking. It’s not an inventory of goods, though the stock in question is certainly good, but of assets of a less tangible kind: the writing generated on Dark Angels courses throughout the year, which I … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

The Weight

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Sometimes you just have to start writing. I’m sorry if there’s a sense of déjà vu about those seven words, but this is another of those increasingly frequent days when as the (self-inflicted) deadline approaches I realise I have not … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Lost in the fog

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

From to time fighter planes come roaring over our village on their way to Lossiemouth, or heading off to do whatever they do over the emptiness of the Highlands. Dunkeld sits in the cleft of the Tay valley, at the … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Shuffling in backwards

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Several years ago, 26, the writers’ collective I’ve often mentioned here, ran its first big public creative project. 26 Letters, as it was called – appropriately, since the title of the collective is a reference to the DNA of the … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

The stories we tell

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Here is a story. Fifteen years ago, Catherine Lockerbie, then the literary editor of The Scotsman, was appointed director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. For several years I had regularly written book reviews for her. We had also sat … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments