What’s the cure for creative loneliness?

Helen Redfern
4 min readApr 7, 2022

Answer: It isn’t Facebook or Instagram.

A number of date and walnut scones fresh from the oven with a cup of coffee.
Anyone for cake and a cuppa? Image by Helen Redfern

It’s 2006. An online community of people coming together through their blogger blogs was how I first started to make progress with my writing. It was magical. After spending solitary months writing and re-writing the same three chapters of my novel I was suddenly on the move. I began chapter four, then five, then six until, a number of months later, I…

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Helen Redfern

Notebook addict, writer and mentor. Helping creatives struggling with confidence around their writing and creativity. helenredfernwriter.com