Kristie De Garis

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Exterior of a large Victorian red-brick building with a stepped roofline, bearing a painted sign reading 'The Playhouse.'

Colour photograph of a quiet historic market town street at dusk, with sandstone buildings, warm lit shop fronts

Alnwick.

Come see me at Alnwick Story Fest on Sunday, 10.30am, Alnwick Playhouse Studio.

Don’t worry, in person my extremely poor mental health is virtually undetectable.

alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/stone-...

#UK #England #Books #Writing #MentalHealth #Scotland

Black and white photograph of a narrow stone paved street viewed through a large rounded archway at dusk, with double yellow lines, historic sandstone buildings lining both sides, and street lights glowing in the distance.

Exterior of a large Victorian red-brick building with a stepped roofline, bearing a painted sign reading 'The Playhouse.'

Colour photograph of a quiet historic market town street at dusk, with sandstone buildings, warm lit shop fronts

Alnwick.

Come see me at Alnwick Story Fest on Sunday, 10.30am, Alnwick Playhouse Studio.

Don’t worry, in person my extremely poor mental health is virtually undetectable.

alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/stone-...

#UK #England #Books #Writing #MentalHealth #Scotland

It is insane. I'm so sorry your sister had to experience it.

I hadn't even considered that.

Thank you lovely pal. I am simultaneously anxious AF and relieved to share this with others. It's been hellish and I could never have really imagined how violent it is until it happened.

It isn't even recognised as stalking or harrassment most of the time.

Me and countless other women. The numbers are so damning 1.5 million people estimated to have experienced stalking in 2024, only 129,076 offences even recorded by police, and less than 2 % of those prosecuted. It is not taken seriously, it never has been.

I’ll be at #AlnwickStoryFest next weekend 8th March, 10.30am in the Alnwick Playhouse Studio. Very excited to be back in Northumbria. My only event in #England this year.

Tickets at link below.

alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/stone-...

#UK #Books #Writing #Northumbria

Bookshop window display with painted colorful abstract art, showcasing titles like 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt.' and 'Imperefct Bodies'. Shelves filled with vibrant book covers are in the window too.

Peak career highlight appearing in Nairn Bookshop’s window painting!

#Scotland #Nairn #Bookshop #Books #Writing #UK

Check out Drystone now!
In the shop or here:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/drys...

Bookshop window display with painted colorful abstract art, showcasing titles like 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt.' and 'Imperefct Bodies'. Shelves filled with vibrant book covers are in the window too.

Peak career highlight appearing in Nairn Bookshop’s window painting!

#Scotland #Nairn #Bookshop #Books #Writing #UK

Interview with a Q and A I think.

I’ll be at #AlnwickStoryFest next weekend 8th March, 10.30am in the Alnwick Playhouse Studio. Very excited to be back in Northumbria. My only event in #England this year.

Tickets at link below.

alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/stone-...

#UK #Books #Writing #Northumbria

A woman with short dark hair streaked with grey looks at the camera indoors. They are wearing a dark knit jumper with a circular Fair Isle style pattern in rust, mustard, blue around the neckline. They have a small nose piercing and silver drop earrings. Soft daylight illuminates their face against a plain background.

For all the other fans of excellent knitwear.

#UK #Scotland #Knitwear

Thank you!

It does help! So much! Your messages are always so kind, Phil, they always cheer me up. Thank you x

Not quite but marvelling at this beautiful jumper offered a brief reprieve. Health is very poor and there's only one way through...and that's through ;)

A woman with short dark hair streaked with grey looks at the camera indoors. They are wearing a dark knit jumper with a circular Fair Isle style pattern in rust, mustard, blue around the neckline. They have a small nose piercing and silver drop earrings. Soft daylight illuminates their face against a plain background.

For all the other fans of excellent knitwear.

#UK #Scotland #Knitwear

Black and white landscape photograph of rolling farmland with bare winter trees in the foreground, layered fields and hedgerows in the middle distance, and a snow covered mountain range on the horizon beneath a pale, open sky.

The view between villages.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Landscape #Scotland #Mountains #UK

A photo of the cover of the book, "Drystone: A Life Rebuilt" by Kristie De Garis. The cover includes some rock-like shapes that are dark with some jewel tones. These shapes are loosely organized and some of them have words from the book's subtitle on them. The dust cover shows some obvious wear at the edges.

NEW BOOK REVIEW - "Drystone: A Life Rebuilt" by Kristie De Garis

1/13

Thank you so much for spending this careful time with my book (and me!) and for this generous review!!

The Writing Factory Craft on the Production Line

Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in 4 months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writin...

#WritingCommunity

Thank you!

Haha. Keanu is my muse.

This is really good. And it applies not just to writing, but to other things, like teaching.

The Writing Factory Craft on the Production Line

Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in 4 months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writin...

#WritingCommunity

My process is simply adapting to whatever conditions my body, mind and life are offering at any given moment. Kristie de Garis' neurodivergent notes on writing.

The realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, why so much writing advice falls flat for so many, and much more. I really enjoyed answering these questions.

neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process...

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Reading #UK

It's not, sorry.

"‘Nature cure’ persists because it is marketable and reassuring. It offers a simple story in place of a difficult one... It also asks very little of anyone beyond the individual."
Such incisive, refreshing answers in this interview. Makes me all the more excited to read the book.