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Posted on May 14, 2022

Pathological editing syndrome.

07.04 I spent six or seven hours this week writing a single email. It went to more than one person, but it was the same one. Did I need to…

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Posted on October 9, 2021

Shiny new idea syndrome

Other writers talk about shiny new idea syndrome. It’s not something I’ve suffered from before. I find starting new things harder than continuing with the familiar. But, yesterday, I came…

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Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021

Refuting stereotypes, adopting metaphors and upskilling in graphic design.

I wasn’t happiest, but I was least existentially stressed when I was taking my professional exams as a junior doctor. I had no children at the time so I had…

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Posted on March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

I haven’t done any work on my novel, but…

It turns out my passport expires in 2028. 2018 was the start date, not the expiry. I knew the form I was filling in felt familiar. Our broadband company are…

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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 23, 2021

Lowering low standards and accidentally writing a ‘novelette’

I didn’t realise I had any standards to lower until this lockdown. Eighteen months after we adopted a perfectly trained dog, she is now following me to the toilet and…

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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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