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BBC News: Park and write

“It’s a tale of our time – about being cut off from everything around you but still connected to people thousands of miles away … Alone and without anywhere to turn, she got into her car and started driving … Her life has since become a surreptitious daily round of using public places for washing, keeping clean and staying warm, using her benefits to pay for petrol and food … But in parallel with this grim experience, there is a separate writing life in the blog, revealing her inner-life, giving her a voice as Wandering Scribe – a process which has allowed her to reach out from her parked car to a global audience … The blog’s anonymity is also part of this modern tale. As with any such online journal, there’s an ambiguity about its origin. One can’t see the author, or even know her real name … [And] Wandering Scribe has her own ambitions: ‘Hopefully I’ll be out of here soon, somewhere with my own room where I can shut the door on the world … with curtains I can draw’.”

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