A pop-up bike shop and a spoilt princess of a novel.
My son has turned the kitchen and conservatory into a bike shop. Grateful he’s out of bed and not torturing his teachers online, I haven’t complained. And the children are…
Category: Productivity
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…
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…
Productivity 101: how to keep writing when you’re stuck.
I am addicted to watching other people’s writing journeys on Youtube. These are the lessons I discovered about productivity while I was procrastinating.
If you’re going to start a novel, November is probably the time to do it. (National Novel Writing Month)
When National Novel Writing Month began, the name was jokey hyperbole. 21 people met daily in a cafe to see if it was possible to write a short book (50,000…
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…
After the snow
Goodness! Is it that long since I wrote a post? Admittedly, it was March, but my last post featured the snow. Now I’m worried about finding water bottles and sun…
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…
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