What’s it like writing a book?
What it’s really like to be an independent author and write, edit and promote a novel and get it into the hands of readers?
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Diary
Pride Month: How to be an ally
It’s Pride Month – and that means companies big and small are adding a rainbow to their logos. Pink-washing as it might be called by the more cynical.
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Why do I write?
Some years back, I finished reading a novel and longed to read another just like it. A book that sparked the same delight. I struggled.
Understanding war
My mind is overwhelmed. I didn’t think it would happen. I was always proud of an ability to compartmentalise. But the news of war on Ukraine has me overwhelmed. Images of violence, refugees, death… I try to focus on writing, but my thoughts keep straying. I should be working on my next novel, but all
Dialogue in the age of Covid
Have you ever heard of Freecycle? It’s a website where you post messages about stuff you no longer need but don’t want to just throw away … because they might be useful to someone else. It’s brilliant if – like me – you have the most awful habit of deciding you’ll have a crack at
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My top five don’t read list for 2021
I look back on 2021 as the year I reduced my reading materials and suggest things you might also like to consider no longer reading.
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5 ways to be a greener writer
Little by little. Baby step by baby step. The world is catching on to the need to stop doing things that will probably end life on this planet within the next couple of hundred years. Our eco-unfriendly actions continue to cause a gradual melting of Polar ice. This will create a much wetter stratosphere. That
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Moving stress
The stresses of moving home and the nightmare NIMBY neighbour from hell I can’t wait to leave behind.
Beating an addiction helped process growing up an outsider
Any recovery programe starts in the same way. You admit you have a problem and it consumes you. In my case, it was drink. It could easily have been any of my other self-destructive behaviour patterns, but as a starter for ten, my body decided to tackle an unfettered love of jar. For every success
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Writing: How to decide on the story I want to tell
I’m midway through the third draft of what I hope to share either later this year or early next and the story continues to twist and turn and bend into all kinds of new shapes.
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