by Clarissa | Jan 28, 2019 | family, personal, writing
I have to put my hand up and admit that I love spreadsheets. I use them for all sorts of things: recording who we send Christmas cards to each year, managing our family finances, outlining my next book, planning the edits to the last one. They are such a useful tool...
by Clarissa | Jun 25, 2018 | personal, writing
I have just published a Facebook Page for me as an author. I have been playing around with doing this for a while, and today actually pressed publish on it. This is the next step for me taking myself an an author seriously and trying to build up an audience before a...
by Clarissa | Feb 5, 2018 | personal, writing |
I’ve been thinking about getting my own domain for a while, and over the weekend I took the plunge. I’ve also been playing around a bit with settings and things. All old links should still work but now also have new urls. Hopefully it now represents, a bit...
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...
