Hiding Behind The Couch - 10th Anniversary (3rd November)
On this day, ten years ago, I started writing Hiding Behind The Couch . Season One. Not that it was 'season one' at the time, or even 'book one'. It was my second novel and my first foray into National Novel Writing Month , and I wrote it for therapy. I've written about the reasons why previously, so I won't rehash those here, and while I often joke that I wrote my own therapist (or two), there's an element of truth to that. FREE Nov 4-5 2017 http://mybook.to/HBTCBox01 I've recently started studying for a Master's degree in psychology, and in my initial one-to-one with my tutor, we were discussing my interests outside of education—specifically, writing and publishing. He mentioned 'bibliotherapy', which I'd never heard of before. Frankly, I'm appalled I hadn't, but still, I know what it is now. Bibliotherapy, briefly, is the use of reading in counselling and psychotherapy. This can be in an instructional sense (for i...