Ask the Author: Felicity Chapman
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Felicity Chapman
Have time alone to reflect and get out in nature
Felicity Chapman
I feel alive when I write. Writing wakes me up to the internal and external in a way that is absolutely intoxicating.
Felicity Chapman
Have a passion. Believe in it. Sit with it. Listen deeply to it and then just get those words out on the page without censoring it. Write like no one else will ever read it - then refine, refine, refine until you are blue in the face!
Felicity Chapman
My other writing project is a novel called Connected. I started it beginning of 2013 and self published it on Amazon end of 2016 - have since taken it off Amazon however. It won a writing award in 2017 which gave me free professional manuscript appraisal. Good feedback but still work to do. In 2019 I'll be releasing the updated version.
Connected is the story of two women and the secret that they share. It’s an uplifting relationship drama about their growing up years, their very different backgrounds and how each try to free themselves from what keeps coming back to haunt them.
Connected is the story of two women and the secret that they share. It’s an uplifting relationship drama about their growing up years, their very different backgrounds and how each try to free themselves from what keeps coming back to haunt them.
Felicity Chapman
I don't think 'getting inspired to write' is really a conscious process for me. It's more about letting my mind and imagination drift to wherever it will. When that happens often inspiration just happens.
Felicity Chapman
I had been reflecting on the practice of psychotherapy with older people in care for a good five years before I started writing this book. Delivering the inaugural Counselling Seniors lecture at the University of Adelaide in 2015 got me translating thought into action - the month after I had my first draft. I was exhausted! I wrote like a mad thing - I had so much to get out - then the draft was subsequently extended and refined (over and over again). Fundamentally the idea for my book relates to wanting to 'bring sexy back' to how we as a society value our seniors. Why can't work with seniors be seen as 'sexy' and popular in the same way as people often view work with younger populations especially children and youth? How can professionals feel excited and equipped to transfer their skill set for an advanced senior population who often live in care? These are the questions that intrigued me as I wrote this book.
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