HISTORICAL INSPIRATION by Liz Manning
What do you do for inspiration for pieces when you haven’t been given a theme? Do ideas come easily or is it an uphill slog? Personally, with my blog, I work better to a set structure, like the Five Minute Friday word prompts or the Jesse Tree Advent series I set for myself. Then there was the year long discipline I gave myself to write about one blessing a week, as much a spiritual discipline as anything for a jar-half-empty person like me. When I started on the morethanwriters blog, I planned to use the date as my prompt. That first month – 14 th February – was easy. I thought March would be straightforward too – my grandmother’s birthday – but I strayed from the discipline I had set myself and only now do I find myself returning to it. So what have been the significant events of this date in history? It’s a varied and fascinating list: 2017 Parliamentary citizenship scandal in Australia after the Deputy PM is revealed to be a New Zealand citizen (...