Recognising our writing journey
I was making slides for one of my workshops called ‘Novel Dreamers Do’ and made a slide called ‘Recognise your writing journey’ and it’s about all the ways we’ve been apprenticing as writers even before we’re published. What if we recognise that we are writers before we are published? And then after we’re published. I […]
The first draft is freedom
The first draft is freedom. Let me rephrase that – writing a first draft of a novel can feel freeing. After all, you are free writing – downloading your ideas out of your mind and turning them into the first words and sentences you can think of and typing those words onto the screen. (I […]
What if writing a novel is a series of thresholds to cross?
What if life is a series of thresholds we have to cross? Like, one thing happens, and then another thing happens. Or we make one choice and then another. Things that just happen because, well, life happens. And things that happen because we choose them and then do them and then, hopefully, celebrate when they’re […]