Posts by Esther Wane
Five reasons why you need a holiday, even when you love your work.
Loving your work doesn’t mean holidays aren’t valuable. Here are my thoughts as to why! Work life/ Home life or simply LIFE I love my work and I don’t really have a distinction between life and work. I don’t want one. I have organised my life to support the work I want to do and…
Read MoreWhy are Audiobooks better than Books?
A Celebration of audiobooks in audiobook month Introduction As we near the end of audiobook month I thought it might be fun to consider the ways in which the audiobook is better than a book. I am a lifelong book lover and an audiobook narrator. I love to listen to audiobooks, also it’s part of…
Read MoreMy First Audiobook
Remembering my first audiobook in audiobook month. Summer of 1978 When I was five I went into hospital for the summer, a warm August in 1978. I had been born with a hole in my heart that had left me officially failing to thrive. I was small, sickly and struggled to breathe with a fairly…
Read MoreWe are in this together
Stories unite us and help us recognise our common humanity Mental Health Awareness Last week was Mental Health Awareness week. One of the memes used to promote it says “You are Not Alone.” During that week I suffered a bout of insomnia. I found myself awake at four o’clock in the morning, the summer sunlight…
Read MoreStorytellers are Emotional Athletes
Athletes need a support team. Being a storyteller Al Pacino said that actors become emotional athletes. I would extend his description to all storytellers, whether writers, film makers, musicians, theatre directors or actors. He describes this as a painful process that caused his personal life to suffer. But does that have to be the case?…
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