Writing Saved My Life

I've always been a writer. My house is stuffed with notebooks - the notebooks stuffed with stories, poems and the musings of an unquiet mind. Open them up and words spill out, sometimes like birds of the imagination, sometimes like the tears of the heartbroken. Most of my life is contained within those pages or saved in electronic folders on a hard drive. Writing is what I do.No surprise then that when my new partner, Blacksmith Paul, died just twelve weeks after my last remaining parent, it was