It can be hard to keep your confidence as a writer. Most of the time you think whatever you write is completely rubbish anyway and it doesn’t help when someone actually confirms that for you. That happened to me this week. However I’m clearly in a good place at the moment as following the initial […]
Image courtesy of Castbox Grammar Girl is an excellent podcast for me to listen to because it is usually around 15 minutes long, so is easy to fit in each week. But you do need to concentrate. That 15 minutes is packed full of knowledge along with tools to help you remember various grammar tips. […]
I’ve never actually been diagnosed with OCD, but I definitely have some of the traits. As I look round my desk now I find comfort in the things I have lined up in the way I want them, though they may not be stereotypically precise. The issues I have are more commonly about having things […]
I have just had a brilliant evening! My BH and I bought tickets months ago to see Nils Lofgren on the UK leg of his tour which is celebrating 50 years of touring professionally – 50 years! Amazing… I am more familiar with Nils when he is part of the E Street Band and have […]
This is a new to me podcast. Kobo Writing Life is all about the craft and business of writing. I’ve listened to a few episodes of the podcast now and they have all been interviews. I haven’t checked out the whole back list to see if all the episodes are interviews but I suspect they […]
There is a post it note pinned to my notice board in my office and on it there is a quote which reads: ‘Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm’ Winston Churchill I don’t feel like much success has come from the stumbling about I’ve done this week but you […]
Image courtesy of Stitcher Your Weekly Dose of Inspiration and Education Mark Dawson is an award-nominated, multiple USA Today bestseller, with more than 20 books and over 2 million copies downloaded worldwide in multiple languages. James Blatch isn’t – but he’s doing his best to learn how. And this podcast seems like an excellent place […]
It’s been a week of ups and downs, like most weeks. Last weekend I started off by writing the blog posts for the week, more or less (the book review and WordlessWednesday) – the book review for Nine Lives was a cheat as you will see if you read it but by happy circumstance the […]
Image courtesy of thecreativepenn.com As I stated in the first post in this series (which you can find here if you missed it) I began listening to some writing and publishing podcasts when I first started my writing career. The one I am going to tell you about today was one I listened to back […]
You always want to have a rocking first week, don’t you, with any challenge. I think we can safely say that I have not had one of those. However, I have been incredibly busy. I suppose it wasn’t that wise to have started this at what is the busiest time of year in my day […]
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