by Eugenie Verney | Jan 31, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
For today’s 21 Daring Days writing task — the fourth — I’m to share with you ‘a story about a smell that means something to you (from your past or present’. Calamine. Just forming the word in my head unleashes a cascade of memories, a tapestry of emotions, all of them...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 30, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
For my third 21 Daring Days writing challenge I’m to ‘tell the story of the thing(s) you were never given and what that taught you or how it shaped you’… My parents had a strange take on what makes for normal family life. They each came from dysfunctional families of...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 29, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
The second task in my 21 Daring Days writing challenge is to ‘tell a story about a book you’ve read at some point in your life that brought you to some kind of revelation or moment of insight’. A revelation, a moment of insight. Not just a cracking good yarn, then. A...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 27, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
This writing challenge is the brainchild of Megan Macedo, founder of Be Yourself Marketing and no mean writer herself… I’m one of a group of people — from across the world and from an eclectic mix of backgrounds — who are taking part, and each day Megan is giving us a...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 16, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
Something unexpected happened at the weekend: I won a race! Yup. First over the line in only my fourth stand-up paddleboarding event and only the second time in my life I’ve topped the podium as first woman overall. Now I could easily disappear into a story here:...