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What we do in the shadows

Writers and what they get up to

Writers have multiple lives. By which I mean, we have to fuel our addiction. And I don’t just mean by earning money, though the prospect of making any kind of a living solely from writing is lamentably remote. I mean, writing is of necessity a lonesome pastime, and there’s so much more to a human being than the pen.

I work for a unique and visionary charity called the Royal Literary Fund that strives to fund a writer in their hour of greatest need. But also recognises the creative interspace that exists between the writer, their multiple skills, and the workplace, community and world of education.

We’ve discovered that the world needs writers, not just because literature in all its forms fuels our thinking, emotions and sheer zest for life, but because everybody needs a voice, spoken and written.

I’ve written a blog, What We Do in the Shadows, to articulate my own pursuit of other lives than writing. The photo below is a clue…

https://www.katharinemcmahon.com/blog/2024/1/4/a-bit-on-the-side

And in future posts, I’ll aim to explore what we’ve discovered about the power of writers, as well as the power of writing.

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