9th November, 2023 - back to the journal
As with anything in life, it's important to maintain some sense of balance. A lot of my mental energy is going into pushing the freelance...
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October 31st, 2023 - not that scary really
I tend to question and go back and forth on absolutely everything I do. You only need to read a few posts from this writer's diary to...
August 11th, 2023 - A little less
I'm getting the feeling that I want to reduce the variety of what I'm doing with my writing. It's a common feeling. I seem to go through...
July 26th, 2023 - A little naive
I may have been a little naive (though I prefer to say optimistic) about the amount of hard work required to start making money or...
July 7th, 2023 - Writer mentality
I've been thinking a lot about my changing attitude to writing lately. The blueprint for how I saw writers working pre-teens was J. K....
July 5th, 2023 - Switching voices is hard work
I'm been trying to raise my daily output again lately. Not just within creative fiction but with writing more generally. The main...
June 24th, 2023 - A different perspective on writing for love and for money
I've just started reading Nicolas Cole's book, 'The Art & Business of Online Writing'. I'm already aware of a lot of the ideas from...
June 18th, 2023 - Now we're getting somewhere
I've made some good progress on my current story today. I achieved it by going backwards. I've been working on a new draft of my current...
June 12, 2023 - first draft struggles
Today I've added about 200 words to my current work in progress as a result of around 2 hours at my desk. Not a great day for that story....
June 1st, 2023 - A new routine
So yesterday I plotted out my "ideal week" on a new Google calendar. A suggestion from this video by Ali Abdaal. The reason for doing...
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