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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 November 1, 2020

New blog post: My break up with Facebook and our cautious reconciliation.

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Posted on October 24, 2020October 24, 2020

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.

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Posted on October 17, 2020

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…

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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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Posted on September 19, 2020

Restructuring one novel and managing my ego over another.

Hello again, I have hardly done any journalism in the last couple of years, as I’ve been majorly distracted by writing novels. I love the idea of a big project.…

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Posted on June 13, 2018June 13, 2018

Writing is going so badly I’m soaking my whites!

The maths: second novel; chapter three of twenty-nine; draft two of who knows how many. Last time, I had no idea how long these things took. Now I do. Ignorance…

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