<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jess Lydia Writing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writing | Travelling | Relationships | Lifestyle ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:05:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Guide: Mljet, Croatia ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We were desperate to get away to this secluded island to swim in 25-degree turquoise lakes by day and eat by the sunset backdrop by night. ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/travel-guide-mljet-croatia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66890751f3e9af22445ccedf</guid><category><![CDATA[LIFE IN YOUR 20s]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:58:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_195a2a5f32f244138cff07270e390e2b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate Frances and I am Frances: the complexity of Sally Rooney's 'Conversations With Friends']]></title><description><![CDATA[Rooney has a special ability to take conventionally scandalous or extreme things and make them mundane in the most emotional and human way]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/review-conversations-with-friends</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66730cbf0327ec16951b4ebc</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_f19883e3507847ae800ca6648ab8bb9f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_465,h_562,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild: proof that second chances can change your life]]></title><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours ...  ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/wild-proof-that-second-chances-can-change-your-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">666ec514d2eafb68d281891e</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:43:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_eeb1c8395f7e4190b6c1f12c2e55ac98~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Writing: 'Mljet' an extract from a novel in progress]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here in my rubber ring I look over to Dubrovnik as though it is my life and not only do I not want to return, I want to swim further away. ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/travel-writing-mljet-an-extract-from-a-novel-in-progress</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66607c9e25efe2997cd16fe6</guid><category><![CDATA[LIFE IN YOUR 20s]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:32:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_8703edbc58e94af099b79920eb4796a0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_828,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crying my eyes out at Connell Waldron licking cum off The Priest’s chest]]></title><description><![CDATA[*SPOILERS* 
The love interest was dead the entire time and our protagonist was merely a severely lonely and mentally ill man]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/crying-my-eyes-out-at-connell-waldron-licking-cum-off-the-priest-s-chest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65e0986a8a9b14fea316b050</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:51:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_c6c5b6b43e54482d9c368bb05a26915e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all of my recent dreams I’m kissing girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everything is different with Meg. Everything is different with me. ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/in-all-of-my-recent-dreams-i-m-kissing-girls</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65841f43d0f93fc2e4c65186</guid><category><![CDATA[SEX & RELATIONSHIPS]]></category><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:58:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_5786744e47314c2b8a308d9c912e5383~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating her way through Italy, a vow of silence and sex on the beach: how could my life not be changed?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the moment I traded my pound coin for the paperback I was set on a journey, I could not imagine my life without.]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/eat-pray-love-a-personal-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">639b57aa45f3e56a18421c34</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_25793ad4fc134c7d88b4ed78126a4ae2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Writing North x The Word short story competition runner up, about a girl who creates an imaginary world to escape her broken home]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/imagine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">637aa29a17299c4e2d2ce858</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:09:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_8881d9292d494795aebdb8461e5bd6a8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_450,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkling some feminism onto Shakespeare’s most brutal play]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 'how it should have ended' style textual intervention of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ]]></description><link>https://jlmews67.wixsite.com/jess-lydia-writing/post/femininity-is-not-weakness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">637a9c734f567caace1c1202</guid><category><![CDATA[LIT & MEDIA]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:35:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/63e51e_a5aef0cccafe40b7844d4eee0eb59f73~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_591,h_744,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jess Lydia</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>