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Fiona Robyn
...on a mission to help people connect with the world through writing

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PUBLISHED: Apr.04.2011

pay attention: a river of stones

The challenge: to notice one thing properly every day during January ’11, and to write it down. The result: more than 350 people across the world paying more attention to what was around them, and writing small stones. The birth of a new community of daily writers. A new movement - a river of stones. This book contains a selection of these engaged moments, written both by...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.03.2009

The Letters

Violet Ackerman has drifted through a career, four children and a divorce without ever knowing who she is or what she wants. After moving to the coast, she starts receiving a series of mysterious letters sent from a mother and baby home in 1959, written by a pregnant twenty-year-old Elizabeth to her best friend. These letters intersperse Violet's turbulent relationships with her...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.08.2009

The Blue Handbag

After forty years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It's only after her sudden death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can't ignore. Accompanied by Lily, his wife's childhood friend, Leonard becomes a reluctant detective as his whole life starts to unravel... 'The Blue Handbag' is steeped in a quiet...

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PUBLISHED: May.16.2008

small stones: a year of moments

Do you ever find yourself rushing through your days with no time to pause and look around you? Do you pay attention to the smell of your coffee? Do you notice pigeons gulping from puddles? This book contains 365 small stones - bite-sized truffles of poetry celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday and the ordinary. It will remind you to slow down and engage with your own...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.30.2007

A Year of Questions: How to slow down and fall in love with life

Watching too much trashy television, trying to find something decent to eat in a motorway service station, feeling awkward at dinner parties, putting off the hoovering... is this what life is all about? These everyday ordinary things happen to us all. This book helps us to discover what we can learn from them. It encourages us to wonder why we hate our boss, and why we keep...

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Fiona's Latest Blogs

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Apr.28.2011 - 9:42 am

Why I'm Sick and Tired of the Royal Wedding...

“Prince William. Kate Middleton. What dress will she wear? How much does it cost? What will she do with her hair? When will they start a family? Blah, blah, blah. As a British...

Apr.28.2011 - 9:26 am

Our wedding present - we need your help...

Kaspa & I are getting married on Saturday the 18th of June, (yay!) and we’d love you to give us a special wedding gift by writing us a small stone on our wedding day. We've...

Apr.22.2011 - 1:58 am

How to pay attention

I’m terrible at paying attention. Sometimes, whole days go by in a blur. I look back and wonder where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. What did I miss? When we pay attention...

Apr.19.2011 - 3:17 am

How do you keep yourself grounded?

"How do you keep yourself grounded?" "With difficulty." The woman being interviewed here is Carol Martin-Sperry, in this month's British Association of...

Comments from Fiona

Jan.10.2010 - 3:24 am

In response to: On wanting to get better at surrendering

Thank you

Abigail - what a lovely response, thank you. It does seem, doesn't it, that it often takes something catastrophic to...

Jan.07.2010 - 5:24 pm

In response to: On wanting to get better at surrendering

Thanks Helen

Yes, very true - we're never quite 'alone' in the old fashioned sense of the world with Facebook, Red Room etc ;) Glad...

Jan.06.2010 - 9:52 am

In response to: The futility of plonking cats

Plonking

I know, Heather, you're right - it's a terrible habit!! I promise to stop moving them...

Jan.05.2010 - 2:43 pm

In response to: The futility of plonking cats

Thank you Nancy

Lovely to hear! Glad I'm not the only cat-plonker too ;)

Jan.05.2010 - 2:35 pm

In response to: Things I've learnt in 2010

Happy New Year

Very wise, Helen, very wise. I especially like that 'the obstacle may be the way'. Happy New Year.

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About Fiona

Fiona Robyn is on a mission to help people connect with the world through writing. You can hear more about how to pay more attention (and read Lorrie's story) in her free e-book, 'How to Write Your Way Home'. She runs a free community for beginner and...

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