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Merryn Glover

Category: Writer’s Life

Group on wooden bridge

Having Words with the Non-Writers

Posted November 14, 2019November 15, 2019 Merryn Glover1 CommentPosted in Cairngorms National Park, Uncategorized, Walking, Writer's Life

Though the Glen Tanar Health Walk group love where they walk and were very happy to have me join them, it was made clear that they did not want to do any writing. I said, ok, I could certainly work on that understanding. In fact, most of my engagement with the Health Walk groups for […]

Man & woman with backpacks and dog

Angel’s Peak

Posted July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 Merryn GloverLeave a commentPosted in Cairngorms National Park, Colvin's Walk, Novels, Pilgrimage, Uncategorized, Writer's Life

At the start of this year, I decided to embrace my term as Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park as a kind of pilgrimage. Certainly, I would be covering a lot of ground delivering the project, and that has proved true, and fascinating. More significantly, I knew I would be on a personal […]

East end of Lairig Ghru

Pilgrim Loses the Way

Posted July 16, 2019December 9, 2019 Merryn GloverLeave a commentPosted in Cairngorms National Park, Colvin's Walk, Novels, Pilgrimage, Writer's Life

Losing my wallet was the last straw. The final sign, if any were needed, that what I was really losing was my marbles. It was the climax of a catalogue of cock-ups and memory lapses, of a comedy of errors that had been playing out for several weeks, but long since stopped being funny. I’d […]

Poster for 'Writing Making Your Mark' exhibition at The British Library

The Grand Tour

Posted May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Merryn GloverLeave a commentPosted in On Writing, Uncategorized, Writer's Life

The Writer has not been in Residence in the Cairngorms this week but gallivanting down through the capital cities on a Grand Tour. The Pilgrim has digressed. It all began on Monday in Edinburgh with a day of meetings with the Society of Authors in Scotland team, joined by our SoA CEO (don’t you love […]

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