Every morning, Nicoletta Demetriou writes for 15 minutes. In her talk, she beautifully describes the wonders of writing just for ourselves. She makes suggestions on how to start writing in our everyday lives - writing without thinking, writing to clear the clutter of our minds in order to find our own voice.

Nicoletta Demetriou studied music in Thessaloniki, Vienna, and London. Her studies in ethnomusicology focuses on Cypriot traditional music and how issues pertaining to ideology, politics, and identity influence the way traditional music is discussed and performed. She also studies creative writing, specializing in life writing (auto/biographical). Her current research is an attempt to bring ethnomusicology and life writing together, focusing on the lives of traditional music performers. Since 2012, Nicoletta has been a research fellow in ethnomusicology and life writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and also a tutor in narrative non-fiction in Oxford’s Master of Studies in Creative Writing.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx.