If you are anything like me, one of your goals might be to develop and cultivate a practice of 'writing first'. We know that our writing is our priority - not only important in and of itself - but also important when we are writing to pub...

Over the weekend I put down my first 'did not finish' read of the year; it might even have been my first 'did not finish' in a few years. I'd found the book in a charity shop and took a chance on it because the blurb descri...

As a person living with chronic illness, one thing I miss is my ability to simply get up and get on with what I want to do. I experience a lot of frustration about what feels like a treacly slowing down of my ability to progress with my writing, my ...

I'm in the midst of edits - and some crunchy -re-writes- of my first fiction Book. This book also has a pre-order up and a hard deadline approaching. Overnight, I've been feeling the fears that many writers approaching publication get cr...

I'm writing this post during that 'first week back' to school and work after the festive season here in the U.K; and like many of us, I'm part relieved to be back in a routine of sorts, and part scrambling to reconnect with said ...

Happy 2025 Dear Readers! This is not a 'new year's resolutions' post - I know myself and my long ingrained traits well enough to know I rebel against any prescribed changes - even from myself! I also am accepting, slowly, but surely...