Hello fellow writers, and here in the UK, it’s just before back-to-school, a time of year I love for its potential, its possibility and the wild geese flight path over my head, as I write.

Udemy course students, you have a new video – funnily enough just after the last new video added to the course – at Lecture 40 in the Good Writing section of Complete Freelance Writing Course.

Inspired by geese, I review Anne Lamott’s writing primer Bird By Bird, where she describes writer’s block as writing emptiness. Here’s a clue as to one of her suggestions to tackle this:

Do hope summer, or your equivalent, has been good wherever you are. Our local literary festival went off a treat, and big thanks to Emma Baines, Lewis Griffiths and Lorna Lee, fellow writers and co hosts of our writing workshop. And to Michael Pugh, founder and wizard of Llangwmlitfest.

We had animated writers…

But while this prancing on platforms is all well and good, the puritan in me is now thrilled that it’s time to roll up the sleeves, fire up the neurons, get out the post-its and trip this keyboard for hours.

If you’ve any new writing projects, resolutions, inspirations for this fall, I’d love to hear them. Avanti!