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Starting is Harder than Finishing
A few weeks ago, I shared a blog post and video titled Five Lesser Known Writing Problems, and number one on the list was ‘Being Between Projects.’ Here, I spoke specifically about how starting energy is different to finishing energy. A lot… Continue reading
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Fractured | Interview with Shayla Morgansen
This week’s video is a little different as I am interviewing my writing pal, Shayla Morgansen. Shayla Morgansen is an editor, a lecturer in publishing studies and the author of YA urban fantasy series The Elm Stone Saga. A former teacher,… Continue reading
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Claiming the Title of ‘Writer’
After re-reading Elle Luna’s essay and book, The Cross-Roads Between Should and Must, I started thinking about commitment. So much anxiety around writing stems from our inner-critic, and our response to this criticism often manifests as procrastination, perfectionism, overachieving, comparison, and victimhood.… Continue reading
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UPDATE! My experience writing from ‘near’ home.
A few weeks ago I posted a blog and video that argued against the writerly defunct mode of writing from home. Convinced by my own argument and the research that inspired the original post, I decided to give this ‘working… Continue reading
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Writing with Purpose
Recently, I’ve been working on a mini-series that focusses on the writing routines of non-fiction authors. While researching the first two episodes of this series, I noticed one piece of advice continued to come up: writing is easier when you… Continue reading
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Ryan Holiday’s Writing Routine
If you missed last week’s post which was all about Gretchen Rubin’s writing routine, then you may not realise that I am doing a mini-series on the creative practises of non-fiction authors. This week, I’m focussing on Ryan Holiday. Ryan… Continue reading
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Gretchen Rubin’s Writing Routine
Previously, I did a series that covered the writing rules of several famous authors including Octavia Butler, Natalie Goldberg, Kurt Vonnegut, and Steven King. I enjoyed creating this series because like all writers, I love to see how others approach… Continue reading
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Should Writers Work From Home?
When the pandemic yet, many workers were forced out of their office spaces and told to work from home. During this time, I heard many authors say in interviews and online that for them, nothing had really changed because they worked from… Continue reading
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Five Lesser Known Writer Problems
We’re all familiar with some of the problems that writers’ struggle with: writer’s block, procrastination, perfectionism, and crappy royalties… But in this week’s blog I want to discuss five common, but less discussed problems, that many writers’ experience. #1 Between projects It takes a long… Continue reading
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Writing After a Break
I haven’t done any creative writing for two months. Why? Because other things became the priority: teaching, coaching, writing my exegesis, helping family, and taking on some extra hospo work. [NB: an exegesis is like a mini-thesis and forms part… Continue reading
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