Itchy Fingers
The break before the fifth draft only lasted a few days – itchy writing fingers got the better of me. I’m now being mentored by Ally Blake, an established romance author…
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7 March 2024
5 Useful Character Flaws For Writers
I’ve started to attend a few writers groups and conferences, and inevitably I’ve met other writers. There was no avoiding it. They were there and I was there, and I…
5 March 2024
How Personal Should Your Blog Be?
How personal should your blog be? I’m a horrendous over-sharer so this is something I’ve wrestled with with during my blog writing life. I’m tempted to post acres of private…
27 February 2024
The Great Flowering of Creativity
I believe that we in the middle of a great flowering of creativity. We are surrounded by creative pursuits. It's everywhere. Maybe it's because I’m writing a novel that I’ve…
20 February 2024
Yoga Studio
The fourth draft of my work in progress is completed. I’ve been writing pretty much constantly for six months, so I’m going to take a break now before the fifth…
17 February 2024
Belated 2024 Writing Goals
I recently attended a day workshop on planning for the year at Queensland Writer Centre. I very much enjoyed it, in part because it was the first time I’d met…
13 February 2024
5 Blogs I’ve Written And 10 Things I’ve Learnt
I’ve been blogging for years on and off. It’s how my writing expressed itself for the longest time, and it’s only recently that I’ve finally leaned into my enjoyment of…
6 February 2024
Book Club With My Father
My Father is nearly eighty and lives in the UK. I’m in my early fifties and live in Australia. We both love books. Every month we pick a book that…
30 January 2024
Beta Reader Feedback
I’ve got feedback from some of my beta readers on the first act of my work in progress. The good news is that I can write and the narrative holds…
28 January 2024
Rejection Sensitivity And Beta Readers
Update: Softening came back from beta read and I took the feedback a lot better than I though I would. My feeling was of gratitude rather than horror. This post…
23 January 2024