How to be amazing at procrastination in 5 easy steps
Today I have been so great at procrastinating I thought I’d tell you how I did it. 1. Find a new series of something on Netflix. For me, it was Blacklist, […]
Category Archives: Writing
French words I have learned this week – 20/09/2014
So, another spell of research and reading has led to loads and loads of word-checks. Here are my 10 faves this week: fouineur nm OR fouineuse nf – nosey parker marelle […]
Reading Paris
In order to write about Paris, I find I have to read a lot about it too. Walking the streets and visiting the galleries are simply not enough. I thought […]
French words I learned this week – 22/08/2014
My favourite 11 French words I’ve dictionary-checked this week are: limace nf – slug dévergonder (se) vpr – to fall into dissolute ways moisson nf – harvest prunelle nf (de l’oeil) […]
French words I learned this week – 23/05/2014
Writing about Paris means that I read a lot of books in both English and French and I’m constantly coming across words that I don’t know. I’m usually unaware that I […]
Agent Experiences
Reading through blogs and tweets from other authors trying to get published I see quite a lot of negativity about the role of literary agents in the process so I […]
Freelance future?
I’ve really been enjoying structuring my fiction-writing research into non-fiction posts for this blog. In fact I think it has helped me to retain the information more and I don’t […]
What’s the blogging point?
So, I’ve been mulling for a while over how to use this blog and have finally made a decision. Because I spend so much of my time reading and writing […]
The Waiting
The title of this post sounds like the title of a horror film. Maybe that’s because it’s about one of the most frightening parts of this writer’s life. I am […]
Beating the Blogosphobia
When I started this blog I had every intention of writing it regularly and using it to record my journey from aspiring writer trapped in a day job to published […]
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