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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a little girl watched her father crying by her bedroom window. She was 11 years old, in her pyjamas, and sitting up in her bunk bed. Her father had never cried...
View ArticleThe Friday Fail
This has nothing to do with writing, reading or general YA related things and everything to do with me thinking “WTF”. Sometimes I seriously don’t get it. Ok… I frequently don’t get it. I don’t get the...
View ArticleConstructing Dreams
So I’m currently building a library… It’s been one of those little dreams of mine since forever. It’s a mini library but it’s a still a library and its shadowy and filled to the brink with books....
View ArticleDream a little dream…
Library is finished. Never mind all the other stuff I still need to unpack – this was ESSENTIAL.
View ArticlePinboards & Scene Cards
I haven’t done any of these in a while but I thought I’d share my 2 favourite new things when it comes to developing my manuscript. I used these tools in the run up to Nanowrimo and they are now part...
View ArticleHello brick wall, may I continue to bang my head against you?
writ·er’s block n. A usually temporary psychological inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing. I’m really hoping the “temporary” will be over soon Writer’s Block is not new to me. I’ve...
View ArticleWindow in the Wall
My writer’s block is still there :( it seems to have moved in and build its own loft extension… I threw in the towel (as they say) about 3 weeks ago when, after 4 months, nothing had worked/changed. At...
View ArticleTBR – How the hell did that happen?
This morning I finished adding all the books from my little library to Goodreads*. I knew my TBR pile was pretty high but I wasn’t expecting the final number to be 358. 358! How the hell did that...
View ArticlePanic… NOW!
So it’s October which means Nanowrimo is next month. O_o I participated last year and won. Barely. This year I have more time off work but haven’t actually prepared much. I’m not even sure the novel...
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