Visiting this local forest is inspiring and refreshing for
the soul.
A short drive from where I live there is a wooded nature
reserve of predominantly pine forest. I love to visit for many reasons. I love
nature and find it soothing to be among trees. The fresh air provides a welcome
reprieve from the often fume-heavy atmosphere of suburbia. The forest is out of
time, a place where you could be in any era from the Stone Age to the Renaissance.
Trees have stood for hundreds of years, bracken and ferns blanketing the floor
year after year.
Often I have been there, with friends and family, absorbing
the nourishing clean oxygen beneath the ageing boughs of oak, yew, hawthorn or
pine. It never fails to inspire me, whether I have gone simply for fun or for a
serious walk (with camera). I feel closer to the divine around us, embraced by
mother nature and all she instils. Inevitably, I come away from these visits
with ideas that I transcribe into notebooks once I reach home. Photographs I
have taken there have become backdrops to scenes for my novels or thoughtful
pieces I use in blog posts, or merely as wallpaper on my computer.
An hour’s ramble is worth so much more in prose, adding
atmosphere and elements of all the senses. Sometimes, walking among the trees
and climbing through groves and clearings, I see my characters milling about. I
follow them, seeing where they go and what they do. Then dash home to log it before I forget!
- Do you have particular places that are repeatedly inspiring to you?
- What types of landscape do you find the most inspiring?
E S MOXON has had a lifelong passion for history
and writing. A childhood filled with family visits to ancient burial sites and
stone circles fuelled her imagination. Inspired by classic medieval tales and
Norse sagas, Elaine imagined herself inhabiting these Dark Ages and exploring
the landscapes in her mind and continues to do so through her novels. The first
in her ‘Wolf Spear Saga’ series is ‘WULFSUNA’ and books two and three will be
out soon. When not lost in pages of the past, she lives in the Midlands with
her family and their chocolate Labrador.
Blood, betrayal and brotherhood.
They come to
honour a Warrior-Lord’s dream,
An ancient saga
weaving their destiny,
But a
treacherous rival threatens their fate.
The Wolf Sons
are coming.
WULFSUNA
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