I'm not a patient person, y'all.
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Today in my blog I'm sharing the elation that my next book finally revealed itself to me...wahoo, right?
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I'm also revealing how that fairies had a giggle, and left me sitting at the table with the quill in my hand.
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Patience, dear wri
Life writing is a bit like this snapshot… it is a glimpse of a life, a thin slice of what you are right now.
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On the earth level of my Elements writing system, you see what you see. What do you see in this photo that would make you curious about the writer?
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That is whe
It's disappointing when life gets in the way. You feel jammed up when you need to take a pause to deal with an event, emotional or physical. We feel frustrated, and start talking about how we aren't "getting anything done", we're "never gonna write this damned book," or "we haven
On this, the day of luck...
be braver than ever, writers.
Luck favours the brave, they say, and who among us toiling over the page, the paragraph and the phrase, do not consider ourselves brave?
amiright?
#irish#luck#writers#brave#writeon#pagetoilers#shamrock
Read on as I try to craft scenes that describe the sensations of being in the writing. They vary wildly, and because scenes are central to my writing method (coming soon in my book, Elements) I wanted to show you what I mean in my blog.
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Click on the link in bio to see me "gi
Brace yourself—oh, Wondrous Writer who counts your words, stacks your pages proudly, and uses an app to hit the daily “percentage of manuscript goal”—only a bit of it will end up in your final draft. Because you’ve made meaning of it since you wrote it, AND you’ve liv
We all feel it at some point.
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You've got a glorious hour of white space in the calendar and you've been itching to get to those revisions from the other day.
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Tea made. Music on noise-cancelling headphones. Warm socks. Dog is content. Ahhhh...
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you peruse the notes on
Today on Substack (link in my bio/Linktr.ee) I'm taking my own medicine. It's time to put it out in the universe that my new book Elements is in the works.
Read all about me returning to my heart's work - life writing - in my forthcoming craftbook, Elements: Reframing Writing I