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Re-Evaluating

When you’re your own boss (or at least want to be one day), it’s easy to get distracted. There’s a lot of things out there vying for your attention; responsibilities, work (if you’re not yet your own boss), relationships, hobbies, social media, movies and shows. There is so much out there and such a varietyContinue reading “Re-Evaluating”

Project #1 – What Are We Going To Do With You?

Although sometimes chaotic, I find it is, ultimately, very helpful to have multiple projects on the go at the same time. Not to the extent where your focus is flipping from one thing to the next and you’re in the middle of a hundred unfinished manuscripts, but to the extent where you focus your energyContinue reading “Project #1 – What Are We Going To Do With You?”

Self-Editing

I mentioned this topic in the last post given I was talking about coming to the end of a manuscript and how that involves a lot of self-editing, and it was something I wanted to go into more detail about. It’s a process almost all creatives have to go through and it certainly isn’t theContinue reading “Self-Editing”

Project #3/OFBB – The end…?

So, here we are again, another update on Project #3. It’s been a few months since I’ve written about Project #3 and, last I wrote, it was all about getting ruthless. The bulk of the work had been done, what was written was written, and it was time to get those unnecessary words, sentences, paragraphs,Continue reading “Project #3/OFBB – The end…?”

Ambitions

Ambitions; they’re pretty much something we all have at one point or another, right? Whether it’s based on education, career, family, lifestyle, a lot of people tend to mark off moments in their life based on what they have and what they want, milestones they’ve achieved and milestones they’re reaching for. A lot of lifeContinue reading “Ambitions”

Year Review: 2022

Another year has drawn to a close. How was yours? Did you get the things finished that you were hoping to? Did you set up your next year in a way that inspires you? Did you get nothing done and are begrudging the 365 days that seemed to pass you by faster than the lastContinue reading “Year Review: 2022”

Coming Back to Reality

So, the world’s come back to you in some way. Whether you’ve been travelling, living abroad, daydreaming, planning for the future, or you’ve just generally been away from where you’ve settled either figuratively (sitting in your head, wondering about what comes next) or literally (perhaps living and studying abroad as I have been this year),Continue reading “Coming Back to Reality”

No NaNo This Year

For many writers out there, this month begins what is known as NaNoWriMo which is a writing exercise where you attempt to write 50,000 words in the span of thirty days. In previous years, I’ve taken an active part and, for the first time last year, I documented my progress on the official website (whichContinue reading “No NaNo This Year”

How Being An Expat Can Help You Write

I’m going to preface this by admitting that, whilst I’ve been living the expat life, I haven’t been writing all that much. I’ve mentioned this in previous posts as well but I think it’s important to mention it again in this post in particular. This post is all about how being an expat can helpContinue reading “How Being An Expat Can Help You Write”

Project #3/OFBB – Time to Get Ruthless

The last I posted, I was talking about being overwhelmed by WIPs, and, let’s be honest, that’s still the case. This is definitely a place I’ll be in perhaps forever. We have good months and we have bad months; in the good months, I can wrangle enough of my WIPs to get things heading towardsContinue reading “Project #3/OFBB – Time to Get Ruthless”