I’m curious: When do you naturally find it easiest to write? Morning, evening, on a walk, in a café, tucked up in bed, five minutes before you’re supposed to be doing something else…? 😄

Sometimes the problem isn’t journaling. It’s trying to make journaling fit a version of your life that doesn’t actually exist. This week’s Lending Library lesson is now in the Classroom, and we’re looking at how to create a practice that can stretch and shrink depending on the kind of day you’re having. There’s a little experiment at the end to help you work out your own three versions of journaling. Have a look when you get a minute.

Today feels really special. Devotions: Ash & Flame is officially out. And it also happens to be my 15th wedding anniversary, which feels very fitting because this whole journal is about love in all its different forms. The passionate kind, the steady kind, self-love, memory, devotion, the love that changes us, the love that stays, and the relationships that shape our lives. It is a 12-chapter poetry journal, and I know “poetry journal” can sound like it might be a journal for writing poetry, but it isn’t. The poems open the door. The journalling is where you take it somewhere of your own. That’s one of the things I love most about this collection. Love is rarely one neat feeling, and neither is writing about it. It can be beautiful, complicated, nostalgic, joyful, messy, funny, painful, comforting, and sometimes all of those things at once. And that feels especially right for this week’s theme of honesty. So I wanted to share it here with you today because Write Space is such a big part of why I keep making these journals in the first place. You can have a look here: Ash & Flame on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HHY3JPPK And thank you for being here while I keep building all of this. It means a lot. 💗 Silver x

Today’s Write With Me is at 11am UK time. And because today is also the launch of Devotions: Ash & Flame, I thought we could write from one of the poems inside it. Bring your journal, a pen, a drink, and yourself. Follow the poem wherever it takes you, I will bring some lovely prompts or simply write beside us for half an hour. Write with me - Zoom

How is everyone’s Monday? Fine? Good? Okay? Now, how do you really feel? Mondays can be woohoo, a whole new week of possibility, or they can feel like another week to get through until... whatever it is you’re waiting for. Whatever it is, I invite you to really notice how you feel, right here, right now. Pop a comment here, or write it at the top of your page. No explanation required.