If we’re to make the best of our time we need to be healthy in mind as well as body. If we’re going to fulfil our role as this amazing, unprecedented generation we have to stay fit in mind as well as body. Writing is such a great way to exercise your mind and improve your overall health that I wanted to share my experience in this podcast.

Writing is a way to discover meaning in the world, to explore our memories, and to express our insights and feelings - what truly makes us human. And writing is about movement - moving your pen, moving your cursor. And it's about going – going to where the spirit takes you that day. This episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast discusses examples of things you can write about to exercise your mind.

This week's episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast is about how I discovered the wonder of writing for its own sake, personal writing as I call it. And how personal writing, writing for yourself, is different from other kinds of writing.

The episode delves into how personal writing is a way into exploring and discovering new possibilities. How it opened up a whole vista I’d never thought about, never seen was there, or had the time to explore before this.

I didn’t start writing by accident. I didn’t wake up one day and realize I was writing. I decided to start writing, and continue writing because of the value it gives me, which has been way beyond my expectations.

In this episode of Writing Is Great! I talk about some of the things that work, and have worked, for me to keep going with my writing practice.

One of the amazing things about writing is that you can start it, right here, right now. And the rest of your life comes with you. When you start to write down your life and things of it, when you get it out of your head and bring it to another place, you start to see and experience your life in a completely different way.

This week’s episode of the Writing Is Great! podcast is about some of the things I’ve discovered, usually to my surprise, in my adventures and explorations with writing. 

This episode tackles the perennial question “What am I going to write about?” I go through some of my well-used paths that get me into my exercise of writing. As always, they're fairly straightforward and re-usable. And I look forward to hearing what works for you.

When you exercise your mind with writing you'll find things like the dog throwing up, tightropes, or the slow stream of creation popping up, as they do in this episode.

In this episode I go through the basic steps to start writing for yourself. These are the steps that have worked and continue working for me in my writing practice. There are only five steps but doing them will help you develop a writing habit that will exercise your mind and start you on an endless journey of discovery and revelation.

Writing for yourself helps you to discover or re- discover your creativity. And it will enhance your experience of the day that you’re in and the life that you’re living. So join me in learning how to make the most of this gift of longer life we’ve all been given.

In this episode, the very first Writing Is Great! podcast, I go through my top 10 reasons for starting to write. For me these are the motivators that help me get started writing and continuing with my writing practice. They're part of the adventure of writing.

I go through why writing is good for you, for your health, your memory, your attention. How writing helps you to explore your mind, to look again. If you’re starting to write for the very first time, or are looking for a hook to continue your writing practice, you should find something to help in this episode.

The Writing Is Great! podcast is about using writing to exercise your mind and invigorate your memory, especially for those of us in our life's third phase - after family, career, and into retirement. Your mind needs exercise to stay fit and healthy, just as your body does. Writing Is Great! is your weekly reminder, with tips and experiences, to help keep up with your writing practice. The show will cover writing as a mental workout and how it enriches life. Listeners can expect topics on how to begin writing, battling the resistance to write, and the various benefits of writing.