Dieting for the Unconscious
New Year is the time for dieting but what is the best way to feed the creative mind? A diet […]
Entries by Kathy Hopewell
It’s time for Surrealist Games!
When people get together for Christmas or other festive events they often play games. There’s Charades, especially for when a […]
The Surrealist Muse
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a muse as “a person (often a female lover) or thing regarded as the source […]
The Makeover
This month’s post is a fairy story I wrote some years ago (all rights reserved, folks!). I hope it will […]
The End of an Era
School uniforms and new pencil cases are in the shops and this is the time, every year since 1989, when […]
Truth Versus Fiction: the 1938 Surrealist Exhibition in Paris
My novel about the Surrealists, Swimming with Tigers, is loosely based on real people and events, but having the latitude […]
Publish or Perish?
When I began writing ten years ago I thought that there was some natural process by which writing became published: […]
This is a freewritten blog…
This is a freewritten blog, the first time I’ve tried it and it’s not going to be easy to be […]
Training to Write
Imagine what it’s like to be an Olympic athlete about to compete. Your name is called. You raise your arm, […]
Un-free writing, and possession
Right now, like my own students, I’m revising my work. On April 8th, a year after starting, I completed the […]