Summer break
Hope to be back in two weeks’ time. Have a good summer until then.
writer and seeker of school ties
I am addicted to watching other people’s writing journeys on Youtube. These are the lessons I discovered about productivity while I was procrastinating.
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…
“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…
I don’t remember learning much at primary school other than reading, writing and how a mung bean grows. Today, my seven-year-old started up a conversation about the trials of finding…
It was my friend, Sarah, who introduced me to the idea of scheduling things I wanted to do, like writing, into my week. It seemed incredibly indulgent at a time…
I have different kinds of love for each type of writing I do. Developing a novel is like parenting: you’re bringing something into being that wouldn’t otherwise exist, but there…
Confession: I spent most of my teenage years in my bedroom reading, but in the last decade, I’ve finished more biographies and books on writing than novels. (Before that, as…