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Category: Writer’s Life

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Broken Bread – The Story of a Story

Posted December 14, 2020December 12, 2020 Merryn Glover2 CommentsPosted in On Writing, Radio, Uncategorized, Writer's Life

The regulars were arriving for their slap-up Christmas dinner. Some faces glowing, others uncertain and sad. Damp coats steaming on the hooks above the radiator. Winter-chapped hands fumbling with paper hats. It was the monthly meal for the homeless provided by our church and I was one of the team. Every month we served a […]

Copy of A House Called Askival with tray of Indian Sweets

Coincidence in A House Called Askival

Posted July 27, 2020 Merryn Glover2 CommentsPosted in A House Called Askival, Books, Uncategorized, Writer's Life

I have a bright red hand-written postcard on my desk. It reads: “Dear Merryn, How lovely to write, write, write! Everything is online at the moment, which is so fantastically useful, of course, and also rather dull! I was so amazed at the wonderful three way coincidence that Askival created. What a lovely thing. Wishing […]

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Heads Up: A Tale of Two Sittings

Posted February 19, 2020 Merryn GloverPosted in Australia, Writer's Life

A long time ago, I wanted to be an actress. (Or an acTOR, as I called myself at the time. ‘Actresses’ were either decorative fluff or the screen idols of a bygone era – not the serious performers we female drama students took ourselves to be.) So finishing up my Uni course in Melbourne I […]

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Having Words with the Non-Writers

Posted November 14, 2019November 15, 2019 Merryn Glover1 CommentPosted in Cairngorms, 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 […]

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Angel’s Peak

Posted July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 Merryn Glover1 CommentPosted in Cairngorms, Novels, Of Stone and Sky, 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 GloverPosted in Cairngorms, Novels, Of Stone and Sky, 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 GloverPosted 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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