Welcome to the new website!

I finally moved my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. The difference between .com and .org is that the site is self-hosted and I can install email optins.   Website Design The website got finished thanks to Shannon Mattern who I saw speak at the Rebel Boss Virtual Summit in October

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Getting started as a writer

Or what I know now that I wish I knew then (and what I’m still learning) as a writer. 1. Believe Many new writers don’t believe in themselves when they get an idea that they want to be a writer. You have to doggedly hang on to that tiny spark

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Character, Situation, and Plot

Building a story is more than Character or Plot. At the heart of it is the Situation that the main character is in before a plot can unfold (or needs to be developed if an idea for a plot has already been thought of). I heard somewhere that Alice Walker

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Releasing some words into the world

Why do I fear stepping into the limelight and releasing my writing, my words, my voice into the world? I’ve delayed the launch of my novel ‘The Alien Eve’ from October last year and every step of the way I’m fighting with myself to just do it. Filled my time

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My blog ‘Waiting to write’ has moved here

I’ve moved all my blogs posts from my old blog ‘Waiting to write’ over to this new site. I want to thank everyone who followed me for their support and hope they’d like to continue to follow me. Welcome to the new site. Best wishes, Cecilia

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Cecilia Carelse science fiction author

Hi, I'm Cecilia...

I’m an Irish, British, French-Italian/South African, movie loving, science fiction novelist. I live in the south-east of Ireland and love that one mug of coffee in the morning to welcome in the day!

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