You’re probably a busy person. We all are these days. So much stuff needs to happen in such a short period of time – it’s easy to blink and find that it’s already tomorrow, and all your plans for today have gone bye-bye. Some experts say you should ‘write every day’. Others say you shouldn’t […]
Too Many Stories
What do you do when you have a thousand different stories swirling around in your head? I’m asking, because its a problem I struggle with all the time – I have a lovely novel all lined up in my head, and I’ll be writing along merrily, then another idea will swamp me. Then another. Then […]
One Hundred Day Goal Here I Come!
You might remember in my last post, I said I preferred ‘plans’ to ‘goals’. So why, now, am I setting a goal and striving for it? Basically, I’m teaching myself how to stop faffing around, and just write the damn book. The Quiet One, my first novel, was supposed to be published by now. […]
Sometimes you just need to give yourself a good talking to…
If you had asked me last night how I would be feeling today, I probably would have told you flat, down, sad, or one of a thousand other words a writer might use to describe being in the doldrums. I was watching the back end of 2015 pass, and feeling like crap. I didn’t know […]