Romance Author & Book Blogger
Last year I wrote a post on how writing about characters who reinvent themselves can spark a change in your own life. Back then writing about Pippa’s transformation in my book, Instructions For Falling In Love Again, had sparked enormous change in my own life. My post questioned whether writing about change had this magic ability to […]
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This post is for writers like me that write a lot and shelve a lot. Some writers I know rarely give up on a story and stay with it until the bitter end. Sadly I am not one of these writers. Underneath my writing desk I have boxes of notebooks filled with half finished, shelved […]
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This post for anyone out there who has always secretly dreamed of writing a book and has spent a lifetime putting it off. You can try to ignore it all you want. Feed yourself silly excuses like you have never written a book before. Deny you want to write a book. Tell yourself it is […]
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I was chatting with my author friend, Bettina Hunt, on our Friday Facetime with G&T’s, about writing novels. We started off comparing our different novel writing processes and then after a few more glugs of our G&T’s we came up with this superb analogy about writing a novel. We likened it to going on a […]
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I read a good blog post which talked about the following: People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a […]
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I’ve had my share of tough writing times. I’ve experienced rejection, written blog posts about my creativity drying up, moaned about my writing, cried about my writing, had sleepless nights about crater-sized plot holes, written lengthy emails to writing friends about my troubling procrastination levels and filled out lots of diary pages about writing failures. […]
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I have such a wonderful guest blog post for you written by soon to be a debut author Rebecca Duval. This is such a brave thing to write about and I’m so pleased she’s chosen to share it with us. Over to you, Rebecca. Hello. This is not a blog post I ever imagined myself […]
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I love experiencing what I call a writing epiphany. They’re not regular occurrences and I think this is what makes them so wonderful. Mine always seem to occur while I am in my little car on my way to work at around seven in the morning. This is the time of the day when my brain will […]
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If you write romcoms or are mulling over a romcom story idea this post is for you. I am thrilled to have Zoe May on my blog. She’s a romcom queen to me and I can’t believe she’s written me a wonderful guest post. Photo taken from https://www.zoemayauthor.co.uk Zoe May is the author of four […]
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Being a writer isn’t easy. Sometimes those good writing days can feel like a distant memory or even a rarity. I have found that when I am struggling with my writing looking at the creative process through a different lens helps. For noting, I’ve also found chocolate, gin & tonics and interpretative dances in my […]
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