5. Alison Reddihough - The ability to be able to write something down with pen and paper is essential for a free flowing and organised life.

Handwriting & You!

Alison Reddihough​
Co-Founder and Writer
Tickled Moon

Alison is the co-founder and writer for Tickled Moon, who create high quality personalised children’s books, with fun, fresh personalisations and original, rhyming stories.
Alison started out following her passion to be an actress and worked in theatre, TV, commercials and voiceovers for several years. Her acting work encompassed everything from the BBC, Miller and Shaw to a fairy, an ugly sister and a dalek! She then expanded into theatre production on the London Fringe, commissioning and producing new plays with her own theatre company.
After teaming up with her husband Simon Roberts, she then ventured into filmmaking with their company Amulet Films. They produced 3 short films, including “Ghosthunter” which was shortlisted for a Live Short Action Academy Award and became the subject of the book “How to Make Great Short Feature Films - the Making of Ghosthunter”.
As well as all her creative enterprises and becoming a mum to 2 boys (the toughest job of all!) Alison also trained in many varied complementary therapies, including NLP, aromatherapy, reiki and quantum psionics.
But throughout all of this she has always loved writing - poetry, plays, screenplays - and now, children’s books. She has already published 4 books with Tickled Moon and looks forward to publishing many more joyful and original personalised children’s books.
Speaks About

• I see handwriting as a core life skill - a necessity needed to capture a moment of your life - whether it’s a note to remember something, a shopping list or a love letter. The ability to be able to write something down with pen and paper is essential for a free flowing and organised life.
  
• Handwriting is a wonderful creative tool - it’s where all writing creativity begins, with a blank piece of paper and a pen. Even though there are digital options, it is incredibly important to be able to write by hand too.
  
• For it sometimes feels that there is a direct link between the hand and the soul - I see it as a channel of inspiration that flows through you, like a river, down your arm and onto the paper.
  
• I also see handwriting as a healing tool - getting your feelings down on paper is a cathartic way to vent your frustrations, letting your anger or fear out. It doesn’t matter what you write and no one else needs to see it, (probably better if they don’t!) but it is very satisfying.
  
• So being able to write by hand has been crucial to the well being, satisfaction and stability of my life. Without it, my life would have been much more chaotic and frustrating - not being able to record my thoughts and feelings on paper would have been almost unbearable.
  
• And although there are digital options now, the practicalities and the completely different experience of being able to write something by hand, cannot be underestimated. It contains a joy and delight that is wholly unique and we would be much poorer and more limited without it.