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I’m planning to do the wrong thing

Posted on January 20, 2025January 20, 2025by Vanessa Smith

On threads the other day an author shared a really helpful series of posts about iterating as an author to move yourself forward in a creative and commercial way. I’m usually not a fan of generic advice, because, it’s generic, but this was thought out and clearly came from experience. It’s worth reading the posts […]

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No more NaNo for me

Posted on March 25, 2024by Vanessa Smith

It’s probably an odd thing to write a blog post about. But the reason I’m doing this is because I’ve written blog posts in the past about NaNoWriMo and seeing as I no longer feel like it’s ethical to support the organisation, it feels weird to just leave the posts up with no notes. Leaving […]

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Good Creativity Guides

Posted on March 17, 2024February 5, 2024by Vanessa Smith
Good Creativity Guides

Good Creativity Guides   Are there any books on creativity that are a) non dictatorial FOLLOW MY LEAD AND DO ALL MY STEPS OR ELSE and b) non ableist I CAN’T WORK HARD SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME?   A) is kind of interesting. In online business circles people are finally starting to wake […]

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Murders of Sand

Posted on March 3, 2024February 5, 2024by Vanessa Smith
Murders of Sand

This came to me via terrible YouTube captioning. It was supposed to say “emergency decent” but yeah… too bad if you have anything other than a perfect American accent when it comes to audio auto captions. I just really liked it. It would make a good book title. I’m not sure what the book would […]

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Who Is A Writer?

Posted on January 6, 2024January 12, 2024by Vanessa Smith

On my now defunct Patreon, years ago I wrote a post about who GETS to be seen as a writer. Frankly, at the time, I was cranky. Some people were collaborating on a project and I didn’t view one of them as a writer.    Yeah, that was a dick move of me, because who […]

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Why Is It Important?

Posted on May 24, 2023May 23, 2023by Vanessa Smith
Why Is It Important?

I saw this on social media – posted by a writing tool.   It’s important to find ways to make your writing workflow more efficient. You want to ensure that you’re spending the majority of your time being productive.   As I said, this was posted by a writing tool. Their motive is clear – […]

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June Creative Contemplations

Posted on June 30, 2022August 15, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Creative Contemplations

Right now I find it both helpful and unhelpful to look back over what I can and can’t do. Over the past 6 weeks I’ve had some kind of post viral relapse and my fatigue is becoming unworkable.    Project Updates: My Fictional Life With Kids:  Last month I finally got it swapped from self […]

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Camp NaNo April 2022

Posted on June 27, 2022May 24, 2022by Vanessa Smith

I had plans for Camp NaNo in April. Big plans. I had a 11k romance novel that I was going to rewrite into a cozy mystery. I was reading a cozy mystery series to get a sense of style … and hit a snag.   (Yes, of course I decided to rewrite it before I’d […]

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May Creative Contemplations

Posted on May 31, 2022May 24, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Creative Contemplations

I finally did a ton of overdue blog work. things like publishing posts, adding images to them, scheduling them in my social media tool. I’d let it go for months and felt awful. It was hanging over me. I can’t say it’s satisfying to have it done cos it is kinda boring work but it […]

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Ableist Writing Advice

Posted on May 23, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Ableist Writing Advice

Ableist Writing Advice   Writing is something that can be done in many ways. It can be adapted to many different disabilities. So I was (naively?) shocked when I read some ableist writing advice recently.    The advice went along the lines of “creativity is hard and moving around physically helped me so therefor everyone […]

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