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Refilling Your Tank

In everything that’s going on at the moment I know some of you are more scared than you’ve ever been before. There are a million things going on outside our control. Fear eats a hole in our stomachs as we twitch aside window curtains and wonder if just one more visit to the store will bring home a fatal virus. We lived with our parents and grandparents dread of another… Read More

Category: On Writing Tags: #books, #creativity, #creators, #inspiration, #lockdown, #mentalhealth, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writing

An Unstoppable Juggernaut

We live in troubling times. We all know this. Which makes it especially important to stay inside, to work on what makes us happy. Except it doesn’t always work out like that. I’ve been without work for four weeks now and at the start I was very productive in the sure knowledge my situation was temporary. It has become evident over the last two weeks that this will… Read More

Category: #inspiration, Social Media Tags: #99c, #art, #artists, #ArtistsofTwitter, #artwork, #authors, #beautiful, #booklaunch, #collaboration, #creative, #creativelight, #creativity, #design, #drawing, #dreams, #ebook, #help, #helping, #illustration, #inspiration, #logo, #love, #painting, #portrait, #series, #sketch, #SocialMedia, #worldbuilding, #writers, #writingcommunity, writing

Patreon Page Shenanigans

Yep. I’m doing it. I’ve had a Patreon page set up for over month now I haven’t launched. I have been planning it now for about a year. I didn’t do it because asking people to support me in my writing journey from a financial point of view felt crap. But after spending a year doing nothing but give I’ve come to a point where I need to… Read More

Category: On Writing Tags: #authors, #creativity, #dreams, #inspiration, #novel, #patreon, #publishing, #wordcount, #writingcommunity, amwriting, goals, writerslife, writing

The Monster… WRITERS BLOCK!

Welcome one and all to my blog! For All Hallows Eve (look, if you haven’t figured out I’m Australian by now here is you’re cue), I wish to present to those on the cusp and preparing for the dreaded thirty days of mayhem, trauma, and soul crushing despair, faced during the course of Nanowrimo, the kind of foe which every writer has come to know… WRITERS BLOCK! Scary, yeah?… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #book, #books, #community, #creativity, #dream, #ebook, #inspiration, #nanowrimo, #Nanowrimo19, #novel, #series, #story, #support, #writingcommunity, #writingsprints, amwriting, rpg, storytelling, writing

The Green Elephant

I want to talk about the elephant in the room. The green one. The one that sits behind the screen and judges. Both their own self worth and what they have accomplished. A few months back someone sent me a screen shot a tweet that criticized authors for talking about writing many words in short periods of time and that the writing is probably trash. As a prolific sprinter, and knowing that… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #books, #creativity, #inspiration, #wordcount, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingsprints, writing

Write for You

Writing for You I’ve been bummed lately. I’m not even gonna lie about about it. “Don’t post about negativity.” Blogging 101 – and today… I don’t care. I’ve been stuck in a little bit of a rut and what I want you to know is how to conquer that because right now I feel like the world is at my feet rather than hanging over my head. I’ve… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #book, #creativity, #fantasy, #novel, #romance, #scifi, #story, #Wattpad, #writingcommunity, amwriting, storytelling, writing

Blunders found Beta Reading

I’ve been doing a lot of beta reading lately, and thought I’d do a quick five minute post on some easy solutions for frequent problems I’ve been running into in my reading; Repetition Tell not show Character reactions Action sequences Of all the things I pull people up on these are the ones that I come across the most and today I wanted to give you the tools to help… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #betareaders, #betareading, #creativity, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, writerslife, writing

The Story & I

Sixteen weeks ago I was curled against the wall sobbing that there was no point being a writer anymore. I had to stop working on the Last Prophecy series and I wasn’t sure I could keep doing this. I wasn’t just tired, I was well and truly beyond weary. Exhausted. Five years ago I met with a doctor who’d taken a series of blood tests. The original tests were supposed to have… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #book, #community, #creativity, #dreams, #indieauthors, #inspiration, #novel, #success, #writemotivation, #writingcommunity, storytelling, writing

1 Book in 25 Days

I wrote a book in 25 days. Lets cut straight to the facts as they are; I don’t have kids I live in a rural area I have a short commute I worked fucking hard at it I love the book, I think it’s a great stand alone story and for me that’s a rarity. It sprung into my head after I halted work on the Last Prophecy series because buying… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #amwritinghorror, #authors, #book, #books, #creativity, #indieauthor, #inspiration, #novel, #wordcount, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, amwriting, writing

Letters To Writers

For 2018 Nanowrimo, a writer friend of mine decided she was going to do something different for her project; she wrote letters. She picked people she loved, people she resented, people who hurt her and she wrote every single one a letter. And then with a private website and password, she invited the people who’s letters she had written if they wanted to read them. She also invited them to respond, if… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #creativity, #dreams, #inspiration, #letters, #letterstowriters, #writingcommunity, writing

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