Writing

getting back up again

On my recent trip to Europe with my family, we decided to rent bikes in Amsterdam and ride through the park. It didn’t start out well for me. I did a proper Roy Kent (If you know…you know 😉) and fell straight off my bike onto the hard pavement the...

body of water under blue and white skies

it’s okay to be uncomfortable

I’ve always been a solutions oriented person. When things are tough, I look for the answer, the thing that will make it all better. That thing that allows me to put said issue into a box, seal it up tight and store it away. Reader, let me...

opened notebook with white blank pages and pen on table

sitting with it…

I love shiny things. I mean, who doesn’t? As an author, my favourite shiny thing is a new story idea just begging to be written. A shiny new story idea that is so good it doesn’t need any work done on it…it just needs to...

You Are Not Alone

I read an interesting twitter thread the other day that talked about how writers, more than many other creatives, are the most isolated in their pursuit of success and happiness in a cutthroat business. And it is because we are so solitary...