Currently reading 'Tilly and the Bookwanderers' by Anna James
I’ve been struggling with this for a while, trying to update several blogs and I’ve been finding it a wee bit difficult. I was trying to keep a focus in each blog: photography, adult writing, children’s books, journal, art history, and web…
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The fun stuff: Gather your music! I highly recommend snagging some soundtracks, preferably instrumental ones. Lyrics can distract you at a crucial time, but instrumental soundtracks are perfect! You got your kickass music, your sad music, your talky music, it’s all there….
I was again starting to plan out an aggressive timetable of blog and social media posts to help me become a ‘successful’ blogger with a ‘successful’ blog. Filling all the metrics of hits, likes and client interactions. These are the things the…
Let’s just get it out of the way at the start – I love Michael Rosen. There I said it. ‘What is Poetry’ is one of the funnest books on poetry I’ve ever read, it seems to be aimed at a young…
Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. If both pencils break, you can do a rough…
There are three different types of editing, from the macro to the micro. There is no set order for these and they can be done at anytime and often can be visited more than once through the process of your writing. 1….