Write It
A short unedited journal excerpt.
Just write it out of you. Write anything, don’t even try to get to the new. Have no goal to heal the the pain you think is in you through the writing. Just write any damn thing that comes before your eyes. Fictionalise it. Steal. Be the bad guy for once, but just write and in a while as you keep writing it will start to be enough. I don’t know or care why. Nor do I want you to write a book or monetise your pain in some way. Just fucking write, and forget healing, forget being a writer, a poet, a thinker, someone with an opinion. Let the writing fill up the page without all these things you think you are and it will raise you up just by you having written, and without you getting in your own way.
John Siddique
Tour Dates
(Writers like to say words like tour and gig - it makes us feel more rock n roll)
If you are in the UK 4th and 5th July come see me live at Bradford Literature Festival.
Two Events: one reading a couple of my classics but the rest all new work at The Lyrical Mehfil on the 4th of July, and on the 5th I’m being literary/sacred/tao led with an event on the Tao of Pooh - remember that book from back then. Loved this book as a teen starting to explore the meaning of what is… expect stories, a little meditation, open hearted chat and lots around personality types based on Pooh, Owl, Piglet and Friends.
On 26th July I’m speaking at Glastonbury Symposium on Living A Soul Led Life, The weekend is a lot of the weirder / wilder side of things, yours truly will be bringing the coherence and isness to the business of the gathering.