MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'good writing'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495390&cid=t_164067_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fcancer-free-friday-virginia-was-right%2F A little while ago I introduced you to my garden studio, a space for writing. Not even two months on, I’m here to tell you that it’s one of the best things ever. When I’m not working away, my day is shaking down into a good solid routine. Once Joy has gone to school, I fight Hope for sofa space and write blog posts and emails and have a little play on Twitter. Then I make a flask of coffee and I head for the studio. Even though it’s only 20 metres or so from the house, the wifi doesn’t reach that far, so once my laptop and I are settled at the desk, we are distraction-free. (In case I forget how focussed I am, I’ve written a quote from Kingsley Amis on a postcard and stuck it on the noticeboard over the desk, where all the book notes are. It says: &#8216... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495390 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:15:07 +0100 4495390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281506&cid=t_164067_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fwhat-virginia-said%2F Virginia Woolf had a lot to say. Much of it was, to me, overblown and over-agonised, but that’s what depression does to you. Her most well known line, though, was probably: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Well, I don’t know whether she was right, but I’m about to find out. Welcome to my garden studio. When we were looking for a house, we looked for somewhere with 4 bedrooms so that I could have my own creative space, for writing and crafting. But we didn’t find anywhere we liked, so we did a bit of lateral thinking: what about a three bedroomed house and another way to make the extra room? That’s where Booths Garden Studios came in. At the end of November, while the country at large looked out of the w... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281506 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:29:26 +0100 4281506 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3872727&cid=t_164067_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2010%2F08%2Ftis-done%2F ‘Thinking, Laughing, Living, Dancing: how I said Bah! to cancer’ by Stephanie Butland with a foreword by Dr. Edward de Bono is finished. All 59,544 words of it. Of course, there will be more to do. If it goes further, I’m sure there will be changes, and rewrites, and further edits. But for now, I can say: I have finished writing my book. It feels good. Thank you, all of my readers, supporters and cheerleaders, for getting me to this point. (Alan, Scott, Nicola, Jude, Emma, Jane and her bidding crew, Emily, and Nicola, I’m especially looking at you.) I’ll keep you posted about what happens next. (You can contact me about the book here.) (Source: Bah! to cancer) Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3872727 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:03:31 +0100 3872727 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475873&cid=t_164067_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F04%2F15%2Fintroducing-writers-mind%2F As an author, have you ever felt blocked by needing to finish another writing project and the creativity is just not flowing? Have you ever pursued an idea and begun writing it, only to find it petering out after awhile, and you don’t know how to get it back on track? Have you ever wondered what made a writer or author tick? Now you’ll have the opportunity to explore answers to these kinds of questions and so much more over at our newest blog, Writer’s Mind by Susan K. Perry. This blog intends to help shed light on the writing experience, sharing wisdom as well as practical advice from successful writers. Whether you’re an amateur or professional writer — or just someone who appreciates good writing as an avid reader — Writer’s Mind will pull back the curtain on ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475873 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:38:47 +0100 3475873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2641339&cid=t_164067_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F07%2F27%2Fgive-me-the-gun-when-suicidal-ideations-take-over%2F I have been thinking about this question ever since I read it on a discussion thread in Group Beyond Blue. Meg writes: So, my husband has shown interest in getting a handgun permit. It’s the South, and lots of people have them. I don’t have an issue with the concept of it. He wants to take the class and is really responsible about it. He doesn’t hunt and isn’t a “war games” kind of guy or a gun fanatic. Then I told him that a stipulation would be that when we had children, the way the gun was stored would need to be open to discussion. We would need to agree on a safe way to handle it based on the relative risks involved. He’s fine with that. I next suggested that he look up some gun stores or ranges to call about lessons. I think it was the phrase... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2641339 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:35:34 +0100 2641339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1844833&cid=t_164067_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F407388417%2F Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. — Truman Capote Copyright © 2008 white pebble. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.white-pebble.net so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1844833 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:54:56 +0100 1844833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1147304&cid=t_164067_93_f&fid=36697&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjeffreyleow.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F26%2Fthe-trouble-with-surgeons%2F With hearsay i am only a teeny-wheeny informed with the politics that go on between O&G specialists and surgeons. I have even yet to dabble with these rotations in my 5-yr mbbs course. But this has not stopped me from reading about a neonatalogist’s writings which have been so kindly published online free for [...] (Source: monash medical student) monash medical student blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1147304 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:11:23 +0100 1147304