Compensation is part of survival.
But sometimes we compensate for the lack of a skill instead of doing the work to gain the skill.
22/03/2022
It's Only Words, at last!
It's been over a year of procrastination and faffing so I thought I'd finally put my "book" project to bed. I was going to properly self-publish It's Only Words but that would involve getting permission to reprint sections from other people's works and I don't think I want to put myself through that process and incur even further delays.
Instead, I'm just going to make it available here via the blog for anyone who wants to read it. I'll create a separate page for it over the next couple of days but, for now, you can use the below links:
The EPUB version won't open in Apple Books (it just doesn't like it) but seems fine in any other ebook reader.
For anyone unfamiliar, It's Only Words is me putting to rest the thoughts, ideas, angst and anguish that came with my #write365 project back in 2014. I vowed to write something, anything every day for a year of around 300 words. The subtitle is "Lessons learnt from a year of writing" and that is how this is presented.
That project became intensely personal and surfaced a number of issues for me (triggering extended mental health problems) so "Words" is a way of putting that all behind me.
There may still be typos or grammatical errors. It may not make perfect sense. You might enjoy it or hate it, agree with some points but vehemently disagree with others. That's fine – it's a starting point, a conversation starter and, more importantly, therapy.
I'm happy to finally share it with the world. Even if no one reads it at least I can say "I did that. Me!"