I’ve been writing stories ever since I learned to write. In fact, even before that I was dictating stories for my elder sister to write down. However, it wasn’t until after publishing my first book that I realised how little I knew about writing stories and publishing novels. Oops. For a little background, I must […]
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I was 30 years old when I found out I wasn’t lazy and lacking discipline. I have ADHD. All my life I had struggled with getting things started, or alternatively, starting twenty different things and never finishing anything. It wasn’t until I realised there was nothing wrong with me that I started to explore ways
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Creative work can sometimes feel like actual work, which is something I personally try to avoid as much as I can. (Avoiding the feeling, that is, not work.) But although I’d love to work on my creative business 24/7 if I didn’t need to sleep, I still sometimes fall short of the actual creativity, like
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It should be no surprise to anyone that there’s a relationship between creativity and mental health. A relationship where the former suffers when the latter is down. Still, I bet you’ve seen a movie or two with a character who is scared of “getting cured” from their depression because they might lose their artistic abilities.
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Until you’ve written and published a book yourself, the whole process is probably a mystery to you. Unless, of course, you finish reading this blog post, but most other people keep having the same assumptions about it. If you’re one of those people, I don’t want you to feel bad! Just buy a coffee for
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You know what’s lame about being an adult besides having to pretend to be listening when someone talks about mortgages and not finding light-up sneakers in your size? The expectation that all your hobbies and interests have to be useful and get you somewhere and that you can’t just like something without having to be
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Now that I’m at the final stretches of my novel in progress, it makes sense to take stock of how I’ve been doing and share some tips while I’m at it. This is by no means the first book I’ve written, but I’d say this is the first time I’ve taken a more methodological approach
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Writing while parenting is not impossible and it doesn’t have to be hard. So is it simple and totally free of hurdles? Probably not, but if you go about it thinking about how difficult it is, you most likely WILL struggle. When you’re committed to writing a book, you will just do it. It might
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I fully admit that I’m a homebody and an introvert. I like comfort and peace. Still, this year has been lacking adventure for me, and let’s be clear on what kind of adventure I’m talking about. I want Anne of Green Gables adventure, I want Little House on the Prairie adventure (easy on the typhus
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