In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. Something you are proud of?Of course I am super proud of my family, for so many reasons. I am proud of many things I have done. But I thought for this post I would talk about the thing I need to…
Writing
500 posts (or is it?)
Time to celebrate my… 500 blog posts does seems a lot, but the thing is, I used to blog on blogger (my first post was 15 October 2008) – I closed it when I created this little corner of cyberspace (24 March 2017). If I include those posts I am at 1013. What is interesting…
Writing Retreat Cruise #3
Continuing my report of my writing retreat cruise (read #1 here). Obviously the purpose of the cruise was to write. We’d wanted to do a retreat where none of us had to spend a lot of time shopping, cooking, cleaning… you know how it goes. We worked out a cruise was the best option. Everything…
Permission to make mistakes
Sometimes I need to be reminded it’s okay not to get it right the first go. This has been one of those weeks. I’m naturally a perfectionist, so it can be a bit of a battle to accept things don’t always have to be perfect. I have a quote stuck to my desk – I’ve…
Never let rejection get you down
A successful Scottish author has just had a book he wrote 15 years ago – which was rejected – published. The book, Lockdown, is based in a pandemic-impacted London which, along with the rest of the globe, is in lockdown. Just like the world is today. Except back then the publishers laughed and said in…