Blog - Vig Gleeson

I can’t believe I’m here, that I’ve made it this far. It’s been seven years! Seeing ‘The End’ at the bottom of that page, three weeks ago, […]

Memoir

AI art for writers

by VigFebruary 22, 2023March 5, 2023 No Comments

I’m having a bit too much fun playing with Artificial intelligence (AI) today. I wanted to see what it comes up with as suggestions for […]

❝The Burning Light of Two Stars.❞

by VigFebruary 28, 2022March 1, 2023 No Comments

Meet the Author In her 2003 book, ❝I Thought We’d Never Speak Again❞ @laurasaridavis Laura writes about how it went, when she interviewed her mother, […]

Turning anxiety into self-awareness

by VigSeptember 10, 2021February 22, 2023 No Comments

I’m living in a turbulent time right now. Aren’t we all you might say and if you do, then you are right and I hope […]

Memoir

How to create a safe vessel to write from

by VigAugust 31, 2021March 5, 2023

I’m trying, I’m really trying to get on with revision, transcribing voice notes and rewriting, while the drilling continues upstairs. our Athens building block is […]

Feeling Frazzled

by VigFebruary 25, 2021February 26, 2021 No Comments

I’m eating chocolate and feel lazy and fat, her message said, I hope you feel better than me. Nop, I’m not doing any better than […]

Hope

by VigJanuary 18, 2020February 25, 2021 4 comments

It’s re-write time and from the muddy pool of shitty drafts, a small jewel appears – at least I think it’s a jewel. I rinse […]

Letting go of Knowing

by VigNovember 4, 2019March 5, 2023

Since last week’s blog I’ve pondered the question of wether I can truly let go of knowing, of control, of my need to be right, […]

Connect before you React

by VigOctober 28, 2019February 26, 2021

I adapted this from Dr Shefali, who says ‘Connect before you Correct’ as a parent. I love that woman and I’m so grateful for how […]

Not OK

by VigSeptember 13, 2019February 26, 2021

Not ok is ok Don’t be okwhen it’s not okLean into the pain in your heartwhen it breaksfor the smallest things;a mum who says ‘wait’ […]

Charity – The Gift of Giving

by VigJune 19, 2019February 26, 2021

In 1910 Wallace D. Wattles wrote; “The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep […]

The True North of Memoir

by VigMay 5, 2019February 26, 2021 6 comments

I didn’t realise revising my memoir would be this hard or take this long, but now I see what I’m here to learn. As I […]

Illness the New Normal

by VigApril 24, 2019February 26, 2021

In 2013 a study by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) found that over 95% of the world’s population has health problems. Lower back pain […]

Mormor and The Queen Mother

by VigApril 9, 2019February 26, 2021 2 comments

On this day (April 9) seventeen years ago, the most nurturing and positively influential woman, to me, took her last breath and left this life.

Why Don’t you like me?

by VigMarch 31, 2019February 26, 2021

I always thought there where two kinds of people – those with and those (like me) without confidence. Those WITH confidence seemed more genuine. I […]