Tags: NaNoWriMo

A Game of Three Halves

For the past few years, my first post each January has been a review of the previous year’s writerly achievements followed by my plans for the coming twelve months. I’ve […]

November’s Pot Luck Club

Welcome to November’s Pot Luck Club, a round-up of writerly bits and pieces. November has been a busy month for me, with three major events taking place in the first […]

Here We Go Again!

‘Here we go again!’ I thought. I’d been sitting at my desk wondering what I should write in the first blog of the New Year. Maybe a comment on the […]

And Relax…

As we get older, it appears that time speeds up. I seem to start every Christmas letter (and yes, I do write one of those dreaded things, but it only […]

It’s All About Quantity

November is the month when hundreds of thousands of writers from all over the world challenge themselves to write fifty thousand words in just thirty days. It’s sometimes hard to […]

Quantity Over Quality?

  This Friday will be 10th April and it’s a special date for me for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was the day on which my late parents got […]

Planning to be a Pantser

  I saw a post on Facebook last week about creativity. Like most of the things I read on the social media platforms, it was very transitory – it floated […]

Looking Back Thankfully

  It’s hard to believe, but there are only two Mondays left to this year. Next week, I’m going to be looking forward to 2015 and making some New Year’s […]

Publishing Lessons Part 2

Back in October, I wrote about the first part of the publishing project for Gorgito’s Ice Rink. At that point, I’d only brought out the ebook. Now, two months on, […]

Taking a Rain Check…

Like many bloggers, I obsessively check my statistics. I can tell you how many people have looked at my blog each day, every week, every month, or indeed ever! I […]

Another Change of Direction

I’ve been trying out a few different approaches to this blog over recent months. Firstly, I finished my year-long series on Writing as a Small Business. This was partly because I […]

Challenging Ourselves

What is it with writers and challenges? So many of us attempt different ones each year – and although I don’t have any data on the drop-out rate, if my […]

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