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Category: Thinking too much

Posted on February 21, 2021

I need a hobby or a school run.

If lockdown continues much longer, I’ll need a hobby. Writing only counted as one when I had very small children. Anything’s relaxing in comparison to wrangling toddlers. Somebody said, “Becoming…

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Posted on February 13, 2021

Not being that wrong and short story link.

For the first four decades of my life, I thought there was something very wrong with me. Then I did a Myers Briggs test and discovered I was an introvert.…

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Posted on February 6, 2021

My husband’s perfectionism, a COVID test and short story cover reveal.

This week has been so complex, I don’t know where to start. Home stuff first: It turned out the black cod was part of a five-course Japanese anniversary meal. If…

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Posted on January 16, 2021

Morning routines, existential crises and a good scientific phenomenon.

About a year ago, I read Amy Landino’s Good Morning, Good Life and started a morning routine. I try to get up an hour earlier before everybody else in the…

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Posted on November 28, 2020

Nanowrimo week 4: “Winning” a novel and whether the Crown should be this gripping.

New blog post: “Winning” a novel and whether the Crown should be this gripping.

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Posted on November 8, 2020

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…

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Posted on October 11, 2020

Ian Rankin and editing

“This is where the magic happens. This is where the magic happens. It doesn’t feel like magic at the moment. It feels like hard work with a lot of hard…

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Posted on September 26, 2020September 24, 2020

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…

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