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A need to be minimalist

I’ve never been interested in minimalism. Couldn’t see the point. But I just spent over two hours deleting less than one-third of the emails that I don’t even want to read. That was preceded by quite a significant amount of time checking Facebook notifications from groups that, while I joined […]

Technology and the story

We had a massive storm here the other day and ended up with a blackout. It was getting dark at the time anyway – but now visibility inside the house was an issue in terms of typing on a computer without a backlit keyboard or reading. Not knowing how long […]

Here we go again: NaNoWriMo 2019

  I love National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Every November writers worldwide are encouraged to get 50,000 words of a writing project done. No need to worry about editing or getting it exactly right — just get it done! This year is my third NaNoWriMo. 2017 – saw Passage to […]

Slowly, slowly

Really struggling at the moment with my writing.  Sort of. It’s hard to explain really. The more I edit, the more description and words I add to my novel, New Lives Across the Ocean. Which is good. I can see it gaining depth and detail. That will allow my readers to […]

Bring on 2019

Yep. We’ve all done it. Made New Year’s resolutions, only to break them. This year, however, I’m determined not to do that. Here’s the thing: I really want to get more regular with my blog (one of last year’s resolutions that I broke) AND I want to get my novel […]