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.
Category: Thinking too much
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…
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…
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…
There’s snow business like publishing
It’s Bournemouth, UK. We have a couple of millimetres of snow and the primary and senior schools have shut. Plus point: I don’t have to get out of bed yet.…
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…
The sweet spot
Three hours of undiluted housework. It doesn’t matter how many hugs I give my children, how many times they’ve been in bed within half an hour of their bedtimes, that…
Bournemouth 19/05/17
It was dark, but this is Bournemouth, in the middle of a subway, under a roundabout: Is it just me being pretentious, or is there a metaphor here? Even if…
sophie beal 