Hands up who sets writing goals at the start of each year? I have a confession to make – I don’t. Yes, that’s right, I don’t set myself any writing goals at the start of the year. Why? Because every… Continue Reading →
I cannot express how strongly I urge you to learn from the horrible lesson I’ve just had. This week I learned why it’s so important to keep your computer healthy and your work backed up to the nth degree. Although… Continue Reading →
Owing to some technical difficulties (a broken laptop, don’t worry I’ll share the whole story with you later!), the blog will be quiet for the next couple of weeks. Don’t despair – normal service will resume when I get my… Continue Reading →
I’ve long cherished a dream of seeing my work published. At first it was a desire to see my work in print, displayed on a shelf in a bookshop, but in recent years my dream has been refined. Instead my… Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I embarked on a major mission. I printed out the first 100 pages of Book One, having decided to wield my red editing pen over it, prior to perhaps self-publishing. About a week later, I… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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