Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I have gone from a scribbler wondering whether she was allowed to call herself a writer to a self-published author in less than two weeks. Yes, my first-ever ebook is now available in all good Amazon stores (and at Smashwords too)! I’d been thinking for some time of [...]
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Hubby came across a great cartoon doing the rounds on the interweb this week. Having traced it back to its source, I think I can safely reproduce it here without incurring the wrath of a bunch of bigshot New York copyright lawyers. Hubby would like to draw your attention to the lower left panel (and [...]
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This week I felt I’d finally joined the club. Important as research and outlining are, until I started writing, I never felt comfortable calling myself a writer. Of course, I’ve been trying to write for years. The difference now is a genuine belief that this time I will finish and, conversely, that this is just [...]
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Anyone who’s dropped by since last Sunday probably won’t have noticed the arrival of a new widget at the end of the righthand sidebar. There it is, lurking down at the bottom, apparently of even less importance than the Scribblings archive (which I plan to get rid of one day when I have something better [...]
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I’ve been playing with Pinterest this week. I’m sure everyone knows what this is by now – the latest social media craze that’s taking the online world by storm, the best thing since the last best thing, etc., etc. A fascinating factoid: apparently, 80% of Pinterest users are female. I wonder how that compares with [...]
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I usually find it difficult to get back into the flow when I’ve been away from writing, even for just a short break like the one I took over Easter. After this particular long weekend away, however, I was raring to return to my early-rising, backside-in-chair routine. The reason, of course, was that I was [...]
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Something new and strange happened this week. Late on Thursday afternoon, shortly before I packed up for the day, I applied my posterior to my chair – as writing books and blogs advise – and threw down the first 500 words of the short story I outlined last week, not stopping to edit or even [...]
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As winter turns to spring, there was change in the air this week… Going… …into a virtual drawer is my WIP. I made my deadline of 10 March and for my efforts have a detailed outline of almost 18,500 words. Which would be almost one-fifth of the novel, if it works out at 100,000 words, [...]
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This blog is often the only way Hubby gets to know what I’m up to, shut away in my office all day with only Snofru and an occasional visit from Baby Bagpuss for company. This week, he asked me whether I’ve stopped posting at my other blog, The Vegan Cat-Lover. The answer, dear Hubby, is [...]
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One of my resolutions for this year was to read for at least one hour every day. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been reading a lot more than I used to since I got my lovely Kindle, so adding this to my daily schedule hasn’t been too onerous a task. I don’t think I’ll ever [...]
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