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The 5am Writing Residency 2025

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  • 07/07/25 11.18am ‘pellucid’ A beautiful word I’d never heard of, meaning translucently clear.  ‘… in deciding what will be remembered, a museum … is also deciding, in part, what will be forgotten.’ Quote from Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers In The Sky

  • 05/07/25 10.26am I turned up in good time to teach Yoga Align, Virgin Active’s class which isn’t Vinyasa. I still can’t get my head around it as a concept, the timings in my head don’t really work and I get a mini sick feeling when I know I have to teach it.   I don’t really…

  • 04/07/25 Day 2 of the 5am residency. 10.49am. I came across a document just now that I wrote after a man in the underground asked for my number without ceremony and then accused me of being judgemental of him when I waited for him to walk on.  I don’t remember if I was drunk or…

  • 02/07/25 Day 1 The first 20 minutes of the 5am writing residency. The turning point method, the london snapshot method, finding Solice in writing, not knowing how to start, wanting to write a best selling memoir.  This is me getting up at 5am to write. Except it’s 1.04pm and I got up at 10.20am, was…