The Nicest Rejection A Boy Could Get
Rejection is often such a horrible thing, stirring those deeply held feelings of just-not-good-enough and what’s-wrong-with-me. Usually I’m all on board with that and would happily seek out a tub [...]
The journey of a thousand words begins with a single letter
I read a book last week called One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer. If you’ve ever heard of the Kaizen philosophy, this book is for you. [...]
My Writing Goals for 2012
2012 has begun. I spent it by the ocean with a great group of people, eating lots of food, drinking lots of good alcohol and bidding farewell to the year [...]
Milestones or millstones?
Christmas is a little over a week away. After that comes New Year’s Day. A few short months later and it’ll be my birthday and then there will be other [...]
Why Conferences Are Good For People-watching And Character-farming
I’m attending a conference this week that unfortunately has been a bit hit and miss with the relevance of its content (to me. Others are much happier). This has provided [...]
Three Things That Have Been Great About This Weekend
It’s been a great weekend for me. Usually Saturdays and Sundays are filled with way too much today so that by the time the working week rolls around again, I’m [...]
NaNoWriMo Day One: The Joy of Writing
It’s 1 November which means NaNoWriMo has begun. Much joy. Yesterday I did a bit of GMC (not a very good job of it) and most of today worried that [...]
Hallowe’en, Happy New Year and NaNoWrimo
I did have another idea for a blog post in honour of Hallowe’en but it required research and at the moment I’m a bit strapped for time. And I’d rather [...]
What Has Cleaning Got To Do With Writing?
I’m writing this post on a Saturday and I’ve spent most of the day cleaning the house. I walked downstairs on Thursday, looked around and went, “Ugh!” It just needed [...]
Do you have a strategic goal for your writing? And other questions from the RWAus conference.
It’s been a long time coming but the Romance Writers of Australia “From Here to Eternity” conference is here. After last year’s conference in Sydney, I was hanging out for [...]