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Pictures as prompts

We’re all familiar with that feeling of ‘I want to write but I don’t know where to start’. If you’re forever busy and rushing around you often feel you don’t have the thinking time to generate new ideas. I find… Continue Reading →

Coping with a setback

This week I’d planned to post about how well my writing has been going recently, but in keeping with the laws of ‘pride comes before a fall’ I then suffered a setback this week. It wasn’t a major setback but… Continue Reading →

Organising your life as a writer

Organisation is a word that seems totally at odds with the creative life. When you hear the word ‘creative’, it conjures up an image of an artist in paint-stained clothing, wafting around an airy attic studio, complaining about the lack of… Continue Reading →

Revitalised, revived and raring to go

Sometimes I struggle to give myself permission to write. I get so caught up in the idea that every snippet I write has to be part of something larger; that I can’t possibly try a new style because “It’s not… Continue Reading →

An answer to my appeal

This weekend I was planning to make an appeal to my friends and followers through this blog for help with finding time to write. But, as if by mental telepathy, Wordserve Water Cooler blog posted answering exactly the question I… Continue Reading →

When is blogging not good for writers

Opinions are very mixed in the publishing world about whether an author needs a blog. When I launched this blog 18 months ago, everything I read online seemed to be saying that an author needed an online platform, somewhere they… Continue Reading →

Can you write a novel in a month?

November, and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), will be upon us within a matter of days and across the world, writers are preparing for this particular marathon. Their aim is to complete 50,000 words in just 30 days. It’s an… Continue Reading →

Restarting after a sabbatical

Recently I realised that my Work-in-Progress – my beloved second novel – has not advanced a word in about seven months. This hasn’t been by choice. A bout of illness left me exhausted, struggling to just get through a normal… Continue Reading →

Making time for blogging as a writer

Recently I wrote about whether or not an unpublished writer should have a blog, and through interactions with readers I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a good way to inspire you as well as building connections with other people,… Continue Reading →

Resolving on writing more… for 2012 (draft two!)

When this post was first drafted several weeks ago, I was full of inspiration and possibility. That’s the effect the Christmas and New Year period has on me! Having recently read the January issue of Writing Magazine, I could feel… Continue Reading →

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