lessons learned

lessons learned

So, a new year has just started, and it’s time to look back over what I’ve achieved with my short stories. I published four, two weeks apart between Thanksgiving and New Year. Publicity and promotion is hard. Most of the time I felt like I was shouting...
On metamorphosis

On metamorphosis

I am struggling at the moment – I know what I want to be (an author), but though I have a plan for how to get there I’m not there yet. I feel like I’m in an extended period of metamorphosis. It’s nearly five years since I last worked in an...
Where do I post what?

Where do I post what?

Over the last few weeks, as well as relaxing over the summer holiday, I have been thinking through how to use the different broadcast methods I have. My newsletter is growing (sign up if you haven’t already) and my Facebook author page is increasing in likes...
365 questions a year

365 questions a year

For Christmas 2016 I was given a Dutch 5 year diary, but rather than just having the spaces to write in it had a question for every day. The idea being that every day of the year you answered that question, and then at the end of five years you can see how much...
Reflections on the A-Z Blog Challenge

Reflections on the A-Z Blog Challenge

The blog challenge was fun. I enjoyed finding words to fit each letter. As I was doing CampNaNo in April too I actually wrote all of the posts in mid-March and scheduled them in advance. This meant that I didn’t have to remember to write them everyday. The...

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