by Clarissa | Dec 31, 2018 | personal, writing
My goals for 2018 were: focus on writing improve daily routines look after me talk to friends My writing has gone well, although I haven’t hit the target of 1000 words a day over the year, I have written more than I did last year. I’ve also edited a series...
by Clarissa | Oct 31, 2018 | Self publishing |
This is the first in a new series of blog posts documenting how to succeed with self-publishing. They will follow along as I do them and also be my story of how I did it. I hope they will help others succeed too, as well as providing me with a record of...
by Clarissa | Oct 22, 2018 | writing |
My husband says the Dutch call the gap for a missing tooth a bicycle rack, but I must admit that I’ve never heard anyone refer to it as that. As you can see from the photo rocket boy has lost three teeth in the last few months, and the new ones are being slow to...
by Clarissa | Feb 2, 2018 | writing |
I’ve finished my novel. It is over 69000 words long, includes nearly 5000 unique words, and took me 15 months to write. Though I’ve had the idea for much longer than that. I started writing it by hand, but then switched to computer. Partly when I realised...
by Clarissa | Jan 9, 2018 | writing
Well, I amazed myself with what I managed to write last year. I wrote nearly 114 thousand words, which is an average of 312 a day. That is over twice what I aimed for at the beginning of the year. And I wrote every day: holidays, visitors and Christmas...
