Move On Up
Curtis Mayfield
‘Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing’
My love for this song dates back to high school, but it’s the sheer optimism in the lyrics and Mayfield’s lovely voice which keeps it in my ever expanding list of inspiring songs to listen to when writing.
It was included in a scene in Bend it like Beckham, a coming of age movie directed by Gurinder Chadha, about a teenage football fan named Jess, the scene happens when Jess is still trying to please her parents, and hiding the fact that she’s playing football.
Music video of the song
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hgolightly1982
I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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