I’ve been experimenting with more short writing forms recently. In part this is due to time – as usual, paid work has to come first! But also because it’s fun to stretch my creativity in different ways. It’s also a bit terrifying: I know I am a decent writer of fiction and non-fiction (or, at […]
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This month I set myself a challenge: do a social media post promoting my books once every day during September. The reasons for this were many. I’ve written recently on how I’ve been struggling with my creative journey a lot over the last few years. The cumulative effects of the pandemic, menopause and an arts […]
It’s a question I will never get tired of asking, so here I am asking it again: why is it that in almost every other field of the arts, being ‘indie’ is seen as cool, rebellious, anti-establishment – but when it comes to publishing, it’s a clear-cut sign a writer just isn’t good enough to […]
When you are trying to carve a career in the arts, it can feel like you are competing with everyone – especially since a lot of funding / career opportunities are literally competitions so, um, you sort of are. But, in truth, other artists can be the best friends you can have. (Note, because writing and theatre […]
I’ve written a lot about writing advice – the good and the bad – but if there is one piece of ‘accepted wisdom’ I’d like to see killed by fire, it’s ‘REAL writers write every day’. ‘Real writers write every day’, you are told, as if being a writer is an uncontrollable impulse that must […]
I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. In part this is due to my fondness for seeing autumn, with its ‘back to school new notebook’ vibe (and the fact that my birthday is in September) as a much more natural fresh start, in part because my schedule tends to be frantic from November […]
In an unequal world where we are encouraged to monetise every aspect of our lives, do we need to redefine what ‘failure’ really is? And maybe consider that sometimes – often, even – it might actually be a good and necessary thing? As you can tell from how often I’ve updated this blog over the […]
I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. In part this is due to my fondness for seeing autumn, with its ‘back to school new notebook’ vibe (and the fact that my birthday is in September) as a much more natural fresh start, in part because in a normal year my work schedule tends […]
I wrote an earlier post on why your lockdown hobby, be it cooking or crafts, can actually be a useful thing for your writing, and as my cross-stitch obsession deepens, it’s teaching more and more ways that is true. So since we’re heading into local lockdown again here, I thought I’d use some of the […]
When you are trying to carve a career as a writer, it can feel like you are competing with everyone – especially since a lot of writing opportunities are literally competitions so, um, you sort of are – but in truth, other writers can be the best friends you can have. Because one of the […]
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