My Sanctuaries and Safe Havens: Writing and Spiritual Practices

By Judith Ashley

Writing has been a refuge, a
safe haven for me since I started writing fiction in 2002. At that point, I
didn’t even have a writing process nor did I have any idea of things like genres
or tropes.



What I did have were stories
that infiltrated my night and day dreams. Scenes so real I could hear, see,
smell and taste the people and food in the stories. My body recognized the