Tag Archives: Writing

How I Wrote 50,000 Words in a Month (and What I Learned)

I did it. I won. I reached my Nanowrimo goal. I wrote 50,000 words of potential rubbish in November. 50,550 to be precise. Now, I am that many words closer to having a completed first draft of an entire story and, I must admit, it feels great… But I’m not quite at my final goal yet.

A Love Letter to Notebooks (and 5 Ways to Use Them for Writing)

Notebooks are your unjudgmental friends. They’re a silent partner in creation, allowing you to freely consider your thoughts and ideas and cringe at them later. Notebooks merely watch as some ideas sink and others float, only to resurface later looking renewed, and their unbiased acceptance is exactly what you need to organise your writing life.

What is there to Like about Writing?

For me, as with so many others, writing is a reflex. It’s not that I don’t actively make myself do it, it’s that I find it hard not to when I get the urge. Whether in my mind, on my phone, laptop, tablet, notebook, or scrap of paper, I’m always writing something. Like this blog. I try to upload weekly as a habit, but I was seduced by writing fiction last week and could not think about anything else, so I missed a week, but that was okay. It’s not like I wasn’t writing anything at all, I just focused my energy on something different.

Note to Self: Perfection is the Enemy

If inspiration is a summer fling and motivation a spouse, perfection is the enemy, the professional seductress that thrives on breaking up happy and settled relationships. At one time, you are so in love and then your eyes—almost without you noticing—begin to stray, your attention to falter. Seeking perfection makes you think of what could be. It is the harbinger of writer’s block, of self-doubt, of giving up.

The Pros and Cons of Fanfiction – Why I’m a Fan of Fanfiction

Fanfiction. If you liked reading or were (unhealthily) obsessed with something as a teenager and you have never so much as glanced at a piece of fanfiction, I implore you to let me know how it escaped you. On websites that offer the public an opportunity to share their writing such as the more generalContinue reading “The Pros and Cons of Fanfiction – Why I’m a Fan of Fanfiction”