Pandemonium and mailing lists
Happy New Year everybody. Hope 2021 brings good things. We’ve been in good going lockdown since New Year’s Eve. I did originally start this post by saying life had been…
Category: parenting
The season of peace and goodwill and probably too much Georgette Heyer
For those hanging on with bated breath: the on-line Nativity was written, cast, filmed and released (privately on Youtube) on Christmas day to rave reviews. I collapsed after lunch on…
Advent 3: Rattling Out a Synopsis/ Wise men finally get to Bethlehem.
Hello. It might flatter you to know I jumped out of bed to write this post at 5am. No idea what I’m going to say, but I do enjoy saying…
Advent 2: Have I magically become good at fast drafting? Certainly I’m no better at multi-tasking.
You know that novel that was brewing? The plan was to outline it so I could get going with a first draft in the New Year. A week later, the…
Advent week 2: nativity perfection and plans for a new novel.
I’ve just had to negotiate to get my computer back from my children. The younger two are writing a nativity play to be performed remotely by cousins in several households…
Nanowrimo Week 1: I probably can’t afford literary abandon.
I’m trying to find excuses for the organisational disaster this week feels that don’t involve writing and National novel writing month. National Novel Writing Month shouldn’t cause me too many…
Writer’s term-time life: Parenting my inner child.
COVID has pushed me into several productivity spirals. These sound like a good thing, but really are not. I start worrying about output and achieving something, and my ideas quickly…
Index cards, school-runs and leaving an over-worked first page to rest.
Happy New Year! Two of my children went back to school yesterday, relatives left and my husband went back to work. I went straight to Office World to buy some…
sophie beal 