Lessons Learned from the Past - Wendy H. Jones
Last week I was on holiday for five days. Yes, I know that's a somewhat strange concept at the moment but this was a belated birthday present, my birthday being in April and in lockdown. To cut to the chase, I was in Ayr, which is Burns Country, the man himself being born in Alloway. So, I took the opportunity to visit some of his haunts and to get to know him a bit better. Now, I've visited most of these previously but there is always more to learn about him and it always makes me think in different ways. This time I got thinking about what I could learn from him as a writer and how I could apply this to my writing today. And it's these thoughts I will share with you today. Robert Burns was the son of a poor farmer. He was raised until the age of seven in a small cottage which had two four rooms, two of which were a byre and a barn. The other two were a parlour and a kitchen where Burns lived with his father and mother and his brother and two sisters. The siblings were ...