Now She Writes

Photography by Diana Nechita

Knowledge is power

“Why did no one tell me about these things?”

Right up to hitting Publish on this post I’ve been toying with whether to share is or not. I feel the need to bring all the disclaimers of how lucky I am to have a gorgeous, healt...

...and here’s how you can tackle them instead.

I’ve been sat on this topic for a little while now (well err no, sorry, “sat” sounds far too calm and reasonable whereas the reality is 3am solo vortex rants in my mind) because in an industry full of noise and oftentimes p...

“Hey, I heard you’re writing a book! What’s it about?”

A question that would fill me with sweaty, mind-blurring terror and result in an incoherent mess of stuttery words tumbling out of my mouth. Much to the awkwardness of the inquirer who then probably questions my car...

I'm back and WE DID IT! We got hitched, had the BEST day with our favourite people, ran away to Italy to eat and drink ALL the pasta and wine and generally now living on married cloud nine even between checking the credit card bills, cleaning out the cat litter box and...

Full name:

Ruth Elizabeth Alflat

Born:

1990 (level 10 millennial) in Sheffield, South Yorkshire UK

Currently living location:

Oslo, Norway

The beers are pricey and it’s a dark and icy most of the year but gosh darn it’s a great country.

Educational background:

Psychology, with...

I think about Social Media a lot.

Certainly more than the average Jo and probably more than what’s good for me (especially when it’s 2am and I’m revising tweet copies in my head because #fml).

One of the reasons I think about it a lot is because I get paid to think about...

Last year I, in arguably more eloquent terms than this, said “F*** It.” and quit my full time job to pursue my passion projects. I worked out how little I could live off (with admittedly varying results since), registered as a sole proprietorship and set off in to the...

It was all going so well until it wasn’t.

Since my last “behind the scenes” post a lot has happened, too much in fact and certainly enough to stop me from writing and blogging...which has probably been part of what lead to my fall-off-horse moments of late. And oh how I...

Wake up in the morning and lie there for a ridiculous amount of time in between multiple snooze alarms, contemplating whether or not you can really face being an adult today, whether your cat may or may not have puked in the night and if red is an overused book cover c...

Who’s our biggest critic? Who’s our worst enemy? We are! Oh Lord, we so are.

Not that we wanna be narcissistic, overconfident douchebags...but the total other end of the scale can be really detrimental and, quite frankly, exhausting.

I’ve always been a bit prone to the...