Do you ever feel like you’ve got so much to do that you’re forever catching up with yourself?
I do. It’s got to the stage where my whiteboard of stuff to do (yes, I have a whiteboard with stuff to do installed on a wall so it’s the first thing I see when I come home from work) looks like this:
Continue reading “How to finish something”
There are few things on the Internet more tiresome than the phrase ‘aspiring writer’.
Actually that’s not true – there are literally hundreds of things more annoying than that. But I’m not blogging about those today.
Continue reading “Open Letter to Aspiring Writers”
Everything I know, I’ve learned from the internet. Here’s a sample offering of what I’ve found out in the past week:
That last one got me thinking, mainly about Mr Darcy. I know, any excuse – AMIRIGHT, LAYDEES?!
Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Pride and Prejudice”
I thought I’d post some links to articles I’ve been reading recently that might be of interest. And look at this cool picture I found for you to illustrate the point, you lucky people! Please note: this has nothing to do with the fact I am too braindead to come up with a proper blog post of my own, and everything to do with the fact there’s a lot of interesting stuff kicking about on That Internet right now. You’re welcome.
Five Things For Readers
Five Things For Writers
Extra bonus thing
Look, a creature reading! And it’s all furry and cute, even if it is some kind of rodent. I found it on Pinterest, but the source seems to have been a google search – if you are this animal, let me know and I will give you a photo credit.
Last week there was a piece in the Guardian by Richard Lea called The Bad Side of Goodreads’ Reading Challenge. I clicked because I’ve actually signed up to said challenge. For the most part, I disagreed with the piece – and I’ll tell you for why.
Continue reading “Why I’m Taking The Goodreads’ Reading Challenge”
Windows, says Cheri in this week’s photo challenge post, are portals into the world’s stories. Equally I say to her that stories are our window onto the world. And according to something I saw on Pinterest, someone called Horace Mann once said ‘a house without books is like a room without windows.’ BOOM, bookish version of the challenge, followed by one that involves literal windows.
12 Books in 12 Months 