Nasty NaNo I feel like I saw a lot of nastiness towards NaNo last year that I had never seen before. What’s with that, humans? Is a community of people helping each other write somehow threatening to you? Cos if it is, wtf? I’d never seen it before so I’m baffled if it […]
Writing
Launch Jealousy
Launch Jealousy I envy authors who have plans or understand marketing. Those who can get on the PR train, who can pay for and organise launch readings. My skills in launching a book tend to be “put it on my website”. Which seems rather lacklustre given what others have accomplished at times. But […]
Downsites. Downsides?
Downsites. Downsides? I took about a week off during NaNoWriMo 2021. I burned out and couldn’t work out how to keep writing when i could barely keep up with life itself. I just gave up and told myself that this year wasn’t my year. Then it BUGGED me. Like really really bugged me. […]
Is NaNoWriMo “worth it”?
Is NaNoWriMo “worth it”? On the last weekend of NaNoWriMo 2021, I heard the term NaNo Widow. I have no idea if using terms like widow are problematic, and should ideally be avoided the way we would try to now with other words such as being “blind” to something. But regardless of etymology, […]
Your Writing Sometimes Sucks
Your Writing Sometimes Sucks That seems to be the advice I’m giving out a lot in Facebook groups and forums (seeing as it has just been NaNoWriMo season). But NaNo is about a draft. D-R-A-F-T. It’s not a polished work. It hasn’t been edited. It’s about getting something done, the biggest, hardest part. […]
November Creative Contemplations
November Creative Contemplations November is NaNoWriMo month, obviously. That has taken up most of my spare time and somehow my not spare time too? I did it. Despite having 11 days where my spoons plummeted and I wrote only 200 words, I caught up and ‘won’ two days early. I’ve also started with a […]
Why I Swapped To PayHip
Why I Swapped To PayHip I’ve never been the biggest fan of online marketplaces (aka Amazon). I feel like they want you to spend too much time learning THEIR WAY, and yet don’t give you support if/when things go wrong. This gave me a lot of uncertainty when I first started publishing books. I […]
Creativity In Hard Times
Creativity In Hard Times No, I’m actually not referring to that global pandemic thing. I don’t wish to erase anyone’s experience (undoubtedly challenging experiences at that), but I want to talk about hard times at a smaller scale. I have chronic pain for mostly unidentified reasons. I know when and where I hurt myself, […]
Remind yourself that you have done things
Remind yourself that you have done things! I was feeling a bit like I had achieved nothing this year. Written nothing of note. Done nothing. I think it was the prepping for NaNoWriMo that put me in this place, a bit too on the reflective side. So I did an overdue task – copied […]
Feeling Non Writerly
Feeling Non Writerly So many writing conversation starters are about your main character (MC). And I get it, but also… not. I have a series of satirical books and I don’t even know what genre they fit in. Comedy? Kinda (I mean I hope so?!). Non fiction (well they’re not fiction but I also make up […]