Dream Time Writing

Using Creative Writing to Excavate Your Inner Self

Who’s your favourite writer?

What would it be like if they miraculously appeared at your house? Would you be pleased, or maybe flustered? Would you pretend to have your shit together or entirely fall apart in their presence?

Could you fall apart, could you allow yourself that level of vulnerability?

So many different reactions you could have and I invite you to explore them, just as I’m doing here with this creative writing piece.

• Set a timer for no more than 90mins

• Ignore that voice in your head that has ideas about ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’

• The idea is to be like a child playing with lego bricks…just having fun with it and if it looks like something at the end of your playtime that’s just a bonus.

• Flowstate practices like this can seem silly or a waste of time to the modern western mind but all the words coming out of you are coming from someplace other than your rational thinking mind, and I find that deeply fascinating.

So, without further ado, let me introduce my favourite writer

John Moriarty

Irish writer and philosopher, John Moriarty has become more than a writer to me. Although he died in June 2007, he’s somewhat of a living presence in my life.

What if…

What if John Moriarty walked through my garden gate? All 6ft 2 of him bounding in. And what if he wasn’t lost. What if he was here to see me. Not only that but he had come specifically because I’d asked him to come.

I don’t think you’d hug a man like that.

I think it would be enough to just be in the same space as him. I’d see his smile and his hair first and then perhaps notice that