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 […]
Writing
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 […]
Elite Writer Training
Elite Writer Training I have access to a large learning platform via my day job. Given my industry has been decimated by covid and government actions, professional development via paid courses isn’t really a thing anymore. I was flicking through the learning platform to see what looked good. I don’t just have work-related tags […]
Camp NaNoWriMo April 2021
I didn’t really plan for Camp NaNo in April. I mean, I’m much more of a pantser in general, as far as choices go, but I really didn’t think about it in a practical sense. The main way I was impractical was not giving any thought to my word goal. In Camp NaNo you […]
Audio Books
Would you believe that it took me until 2021 to try audio books? I was always mildly curious but just… hadn’t…. I had no idea how to start though. I was worried that I wouldn’t like audio books and that it would “ruin” a story for me if it turned out that I didn’t […]
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games It must have been 2019. Hunger Games had been on our Netflix queue for a while and one day my husband said he wanted to watch it. I said sure, even though I knew they were books too. I was undecided (still am) on read first vs watch first. […]
Romancing SciFi
Romancing SciFi How do you feel about romance in Science Fiction? I feel like it doesn’t add anything. I compare Alien to the “not a prequel” movie Prometheus and I feel the romance detracts from the story. It changes the reason for the tension, and that is distracting to me. “Individual science […]
Creator Guilt
Creator Guilt In early March I created a new website. Ironically, I did this after backing up and cancelling a heap of half-used websites. Anyway, that’s a thing, but not the guilty part. The new website is a fictional “mom blog” called My Fictional Life With Kids. As new ideas can be, I […]
Patreon Update
You may be aware that I launched a Patreon page earlier this year. After thinking about it for a few months, I’m changing things up a little. I’ve been uncertain how I feel about paywalling my content for a while. I have conflicting thoughts. I don’t believe a creator should have to give everything […]
NaNoWriMo 2021 Week 1
NaNoWriMo 2021 Week 1 How did it go? Well, as of writing this, it’s the morning of the 9th and I’m at 11,121 words. An on-track number by the end of today would be 15,003. I didn’t write at all on the 8th as I was unwell. 3882 words is catch-up-able though. But my spoons […]