“Overheard” this conversation on a Discord server I’m part of (whee, look at me learning new technology and finding communities without social media!*) this evening where the conversational participants were like eh, positive affirmations always sound so stupid to me, and I’m like OH HEY HI I CAN HELP WITH THIS I KNOW WHY. * […]
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Welcome to Writer Wednesday, one quick tip to improve your writing weekly. Today’s topic is writer’s block! For me, there are usually three reasons for this. Number one, I have done something wrong, and in that case, it’s a matter of backing up to the last point in the story where the writing felt easy
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Getting back into the habit of things is significantly on my mind of late as I try to restart writing after 6 months off. I ended the month with nearly 15,000 words, which is pretty good for a cold start, considering I didn’t really write the first week of August and it’s been as aforementioned
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Yeah, look, work has been hektik the last two weeks and sufficient sleep has not been a Thing. But! Today I finished with my marking for the year – shouldn’t have any more marking now until at least mid March?! – and Decoherence, Liana Brooks’ third Time & Shadows book, is currently with her for
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This is literally how I do maths. I tried explaining it to my Year 5 or 6 teacher (I forget which but I think it was Year 6) and he nearly died at me. What’s 26 – 18? Well, you need 2 more to get from 18 to 20, and 2 + 6 is 8,
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So, Inklet #5, The Wasporcist, is out now – hurrah! But I realised something last night, as I finally lay down to sleep at nearly 1am after dealing with a vomiting small person and writing cover lessons for my classes today: my ears started ringing – you know, that high-pitched whine they sometimes get for
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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
Had to go out for dinner on Sat night to a wood-fired pizza restaurant. Dinner was delicious, as expected – and the food reactions were awful, as expected. *sigh*. It didn’t help that I made the mistake of eating a GIANT BOWL of rocket salad before realising that oops, yeah, rocket =/= lettuce and while
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Extract from a random conversation with Liana Brooks on learning to live with negative emotions – sharing because…?? I don’t know? Someone else might find it useful? My brain is a weird place and I feel you deserve full disclosure of that? Something. 😀 this is different it’s not bottling i know bottling i
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Trying so, so hard to make this wonderful quote from the inestimable Maggie Stiefvater my mantra this year. I’ve noted before that getting enough sleep is the key to managing my stress levels, anxiety, and also healthy eating. Some days I’m better at it than others. When we have company, I SUCK at it, because
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