“You must let go of the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell

I’m nearly at the finish line! I’m on the last chapter of The Cambridge University Witches. And, funnily enough, it’s not ending in the way I thought it would. I love it when I sit down to write a scene and the characters take me on a different path to the one I thought I was taking. It’s always a more magical and exciting path than the one I’d planned. So it is with writing, so it is with life. The life we’ve planned is always smaller and duller than the one waiting for us. To have it, we just need the courage to let go of what we think we want, the courage to open our arms and ask for everything the world has to offer. Then we will be rewarded with a life full of magic, excitement, passion and joy. Because the life you plan in your head will never be as amazing as the one you live with an open heart…

Pic: a research trip for Witches led to a first edition of The Origin of Species, worth £60,000. Sadly I didn’t get to take it home, but it was a great trip – thank you Alice!