Writing

I feel like everyone is saying 2022 hasn’t really started for them until Feb … but kind of, yeah. January was a whirlwind of wrapping up a job (so many handover documents. SO. MANY.), mentally preparing to leave a place I had worked, across many different roles, since April 2014. Job hunting. Learning to quote […]

SitComs   We’ve been watching Mom ever since it turned up on Netflix. I never knew much about the show, but recognised the two main actors from their other works.   I watch things spoiler-free these days.   It’s not bad. I like that it is a show that has (is still?) been on the […]

Novel Noises   While I was prepping for NaNoWriMo in 2021, I came across something I hadn’t really thought about yet. Noises. What noises are normal in the universe I’m creating?   I felt ok at first, having only written about a few noises so far as I think it’s quite a bland and sterile […]

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 […]

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 […]

I mean yes, it is technically January but I’ve been barely turning on a computer for a week so… a day late isn’t too bad 🙂 I found out in December my contract at my day job isn’t being renewed so I’m sadly leaving some wonderful people and work that I’m going to miss and […]

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”?   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. It does feel like a […]

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. […]