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 […]
The Impressions You Leave Behind You Read More »
A repost, because apparently I needed it this week. Thanks, Past!Amy. Thanks. From 16 March 2015. There are days when you just want to wash your hands and quit humanity. You know the kind. Maybe someone (or a whole host of someones) was rude to you; maybe people were petty or spiteful or jealous or
Please Don’t Give Up Read More »
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
Art’s Your Product, Not Your Self Read More »
Found this on a stumble through the archives, and it felt timely to repost. Go on. Be rebellious. You know you want to 😉 Modern Western consumer culture particularly sets us up to be in competition with each other – as men, as women, as non-binaries, as teens, as adults, in the workplace, in comparing
Do Something Rebellious: Become An Encourager Read More »
Funny. If you’ve been playing along, you know by now that I had a Major Work Project (MWP) that ate up most of my life from late July through to mid-September, and that I’ve been digging myself out of that hole ever since. I passed, which is fantastic (!!), and I just found out last
Perspective and the Narratives We Tell Ourselves Read More »
Step 1: burn your diary Step 2: now you have nothing to do Step 3: congratulations, you got everything done! …If you’d like a slightly more practical approach, this was a great article I found last week about using discernment to tackle your to-dos. I suspect it will mesh nicely with The One Thing,
How To Get Everything Done 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
Wow. Wow-Wow. So, as you know if you’ve been following along, I spent last week in Las Vegas for the WMG Writing Business Masterclass with a host of incredible, amazing people – participants and presenters alike. I have 50 pages of handwritten notes, an action list longer than my arm (which I need to sort
Catching Up: Why I’m Going To Stop Spinning And The World Isn’t Read More »
Juggling is hard. It takes skill, and precision, and determination. And when you can juggle six balls with ease, eight balls with confidence, ten balls with concentration, and are living life constantly at thirteen balls… You can get hysterical when failure arrives. Or you can toss your failures up in the air and watch them
Glittering, Glimmering, Gilded Read More »
