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Our #WinteringWorkshop with @_katherine_may_ as part of #CleanProseTalks starts in a few minutes. We& #39;ll be live-tweeting so follow this thread for updates!
@_katherine_may_ "It doesn& #39;t matter how rich you are or happy you are, difficult things outside of our control will happen at some point and we& #39;ll experience a & #39;Winter& #39;. We should allow ourselves to feel that pain and acknowledge it."
#WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
#WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
Our director @cleanproseshar1 has just asked @_katherine_may_ about the public face we put on when we experience a & #39;Winter& #39; or & #39;Wintering& #39;. "Do you think that Wintering always leads to feeling like an outsider?"
#WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
#WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "We& #39;re all experiencing wintering but we& #39;re wintering in different ways. We& #39;re arguing about the different ways we& #39;re suffering. I& #39;m loving the relative isolation of this crisis but it& #39;s making some people miserable. #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ : "Writers are trying to say interesting things and suddenly the world is more interesting than we are." @cleanproseshar1: "Yes, I& #39;m reading a lot of different news about how much truth is currently stranger than fiction!"
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#WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@cleanproseshar1: "My sleep is so different during lockdown. I love your discussion in & #39;Wintering& #39; about how when you& #39;re dealing with a crisis of any kind our sleep mode changes. Have you been thinking about that in this current time?" #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ : "Yes, I& #39;m hearing that some people are sleeping less, and some people are sleeping more. People are talking about their dreams more! In & #39;Wintering& #39; I talk about how we& #39;ve stopped trusting our natural bodily feedback..." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ : "...and we& #39;re wearing gadgets that make us worry about how much sleep we& #39;re getting." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
One of our audience members Janet has just asked @_katherine_may_ what positives can come out of & #39;Wintering& #39;. #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "I& #39;m hesitant to frame the discussion around positivity as I don& #39;t think we should feel pressure to feel positive about difficult situations..." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "...but we can gain wisdom and learn from difficult changes, especially if we don& #39;t try to resist the change. Although [Covid] isn& #39;t the change any of us would have chosen it will change us in a profound way as a society..." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "...and some of them - not all of them- will be good changes." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "If I want to learn about a new thing I write a book about it. I write about the distance past and I also love writing about now. " #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ Questions you should ask yourself during a & #39;Wintering& #39; period: What can you teach? What can you learn? What should you keep? What should you burn? #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ And the last question you should ask yourself, what& #39;s the next thing that will get you excited? #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "If you& #39;re struggling to read or write right now, turn back to your interests. I turn back to children& #39;s books. In terms of writing, if you can only focus on what& #39;s happening right now then write about it. #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "If you don& #39;t feel like writing right now, then don& #39;t! I don& #39;t think you have to write every day." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
@_katherine_may_ "Winter is not the death of the lifecycle, but its crucible." #WinteringWorkshop #CleanProseTalks
And that concludes our #WinteringWorkshop as part of #CleanProseTalks with @_katherine_may_! Thank you for coming! If you have any more questions for Katherine please send them our way with the hashtag #CleanProseTalks!
