Thinking about writing

I might not have been getting words down on the page lately, but these last few days I’ve been thinking about it as I try to decide how I’m going to get back into it.
I really want to complete Chasing Ascension, and I think I’m ready to get back into it – but do I [...]

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Changes

Life is ALWAYS changing. Sometimes it’s subtle, other times it all seems to crash in on us at once and it’s simply down to the individual as to how they deal with it.
I’d like to think I deal well with change, but my head is spinning at the moment with the different things going on.
Today [...]

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Struggling

seriously, it’s ridiculous! I spend 2-3hours in bed with Lauren while she has her afternoon nap, and yet I’m still exhausted by this time of night, and often head off to bed at 830. Growing a baby is tiring, invisible work, and sometimes the invisible work is the hardest because no-one can see it happening.
I’m [...]

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Books: readers vs readers/writers

I’ve had some interesting chats to a couple of people lately about books – the books we love, the books we can reread without getting halfway through and putting them down again, books that we outgrew – and I started wondering if there was a difference between people who write, and people who don’t.
When I [...]

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I’ve never been so happy to feel like crap

This morning I threw up into the waste disposal unit. And then I smiled.
I’d been worried since my tummy bug cleared up and I wasn’t feeling so rotten, but now it’s all on, full force, and I couldn’t be happier. The worse I feel, the better I feel, and while I know there isn’t necessarily [...]

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Ug, maybe I can’t do it

NaNoWriMo that is. I’ve totally fallen off the wagon, writing only one day in the last week! Everything is messy here, everyone has been sick and I’m so tired, most of the weekend was spent out of the house and there just seems to be no time at all.
Or rather, when the baby sleeps, there [...]

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Re-envisioning

I had a creative writing lecturer who was adamant that the second draft of a story be pretty much completely different. Revision, he said, was another way to say ‘re-envision’ which meant you pulled out the core elements of the story, twisted them up and plopped them down on the page again. In his mind, [...]

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I can still do this

So, I’ve had three days off writing… I just have not been in the right place to get anything done and when I tried last night all I wanted to do was sleep! Yesterday afternoon when I normally would have written I slept, because I was up most of the night with a sick baby.
I’m [...]

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Ops I did it again…

Well, for those of you who haven’t heard it before now – I’m having another baby!
Totally out of the blue, unplanned, accidental, was totally not expecting it, but I’m very happy and hubby is slowly getting over the shock of it.
I did suspect something was up when I went off coffee, but… well, there are [...]

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All the entries are in

for the searchterm challenge, you should definitely go here and vote! Well, read the stories first of course, there are some good ones!
Merrilee won last time and hopes to retain her crown this round, but we’ll have to wait til the 15th of the month before we find out who the winner is.
Well done to [...]

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