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How To Deal With Other People’s Expectations Of Your Writing
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Are You Tortured Because You’re A Really Slow Writer
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Writing a Novel Is Like Doing An Archaeological Dig
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Don’t Shy Away From Tricky Topics
How To Be Content With Your Writing Pace
Do You Need To Lower Your Writing Expectations?
Would You Really Write More If You Didn’t Have A Job?
Is 2022 The Year You Write That Book?
Here are all the older blogs. Happy reading…
The three most important lessons I have learned about creativity
I’ve been blogging consistently for two years now. Today I would like to share the three most important lessons I have learned in that time about creativity. Lesson 1: you can only control the inputs not the output I had been writing on Medium for a couple of...
Feel like giving up? This is the time to keep going
Have you ever had a project that felt so impossible that you just want to give up? You are so despondent that you no longer care about all the effort you have put in. Perhaps it hasn’t panned out the way you wanted it to, or it has taken much longer than you thought....
How this writer transitioned to part time work to have more time to write
This week I am proud to welcome writer Mark O'Loughlin to the Meet The Artist series. In the interview below Mark tells us how he transitioned from a full-time job, which didn't allow him much creative time, to part-time work. Mark now has a great balance of day job...
3 ways to tell the inner critic to f**k off and create anyway
There it is again. That voice in your head that tells you your art work is crap, or your writing is appalling or it’s not worth bothering. The inner critic is the same voice that tells you your creative ambitions are too scary and it is best if you stay in your safe...
Find out how this writer tackles multiple writing projects
This week I am very pleased to welcome Philip Whiteley to the Meet The Artist series. Philip is a seasoned writer whose day job is in corporate writing and ghost-writing. On the side he also writes novels. Despite being a professional writer he spent seventeen years...
What to do when you are daunted by your creative project
I sat in tears at my computer. Why was I doing this? Was it really necessary? Why had I even started it? Maybe I should abandon the idea. I was so daunted. The task in hand was building the home page for my new website. I am technically minded so it wasn’t beyond my...
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