Oh my word, this book. This was not a book I meant to write. In fact, as I began it back in approximately early September, it felt like a complete distraction from what I was *meant* to be writing, which was Define Good, the next Kaditeos book.* Define Good had been going quite well, but […]
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* See? I can totally write things without magic or technology!! A peed-on stuffed unicorn, children who refuse to go to sleep, and a husband absent for five more days: not Ashley’s description of an ideal evening. But maybe, with a little shift in perspective, she can still salvage the rest of her night… A
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I’m tearing up a little as I’m writing this, because I’m writing this on Sunday, and my Nana is dying, and I fully expect that by the time this posts on Thursday, she will be gone. (And that makes four grandparents in four months. Can 2019 just stop already, please?) My mum has been going
On Who I Have Been, And Who I Choose To Be Read More »
My Nana passed away in the night. I wasn’t extremely close to her, so I’m more grieving for my mum’s sake, but regardless, I am sad. On the way in to drop my son off to school this morning, it was raining. The ground was wet. On the way back out, I noticed a set
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I adore this song from The Hobbit, and although the lyrics aren’t a close match necessarily (although something in them is, *grin*), the TONE of this song is so, so #FoxBook. Enjoy, and happy Friday! Read more:I'm Alive, I Promise (With ALL The Cover Reveals!)A Song By A Very Talented Young LadyWhen War Came To
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I needed this reminder. It’s been seven or so months since I worked on a novel, and restarting after so long is pants-wettingly terrifying. What if I’ve forgotten how to do it? What if it’s all crap? Why am I doing this anyway when I already have a full-time job and more items on my
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I’m back from two weeks away essentially without internet, and I need to talk about that. But first, I’ll do that thing that I ‘should’ do, which is announce that How To Create Cultures is now out and available everywhere in ebook – print release has stuck to the original date of the 17th, so
I’m Back, Culture Book Is Out, And Thoughts On Burnout Read More »
This started as a side note in my post yesterday about The Crimes of Grindelwald. You probably don’t have to read it for this one to make sense since it’s mostly a review of the film, but it’s here in case you want to. Oh, the human psyche. I do this Thing in classes when
Showing Versus Telling, The Human Psyche, Grindelwald, and Abuse Read More »
This is just about the most important lesson I’ve learned this year: fail to success. That’s Dean Wesley Smith’s way of putting it, but it’s another spin on the old saying, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” Way back when, when my son had just been born and
I wrote the below post back in November last year, but I couldn’t bring myself to post it at the time. It felt too much like screaming into the void, and it hurt, and I hurt, and everything was just too much. I found the post this past weekend, when I was trawling through my
