Mo Fanning's Blog, page 11

My top five don’t read list for 2021

I look back on 2021 as the year I reduced my reading materials and suggest things you might also like to consider no longer reading.

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5 ways to be a greener writer

Little by little. Baby step by baby step. The world is catching on to the need to stop doing things that will probably end life on this planet within the next couple of hundred years. Our eco-unfriendly actions continue to cause a gradual melting of Polar ice. This will create a much wetter stratosphere. That […]

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Moving stress

The stresses of moving home and the nightmare NIMBY neighbour from hell I can't wait to leave behind.

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The shape of a story

I’ve created a FREE planning tool you can open in PowerPoint to use with your own stories.

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Beating an addiction helped process growing up an outsider

Any recovery programe starts in the same way. You admit you have a problem and it consumes you. In my case, it was drink. It could easily have been any of my other self-destructive behaviour patterns, but as a starter for ten, my body decided to tackle an unfettered love of jar. For every success […]

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Writing: How to decide on the story I want to tell

I'm midway through the third draft of what I hope to share either later this year or early next and the story continues to twist and turn and bend into all kinds of new shapes.

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Johnson bids for female vote with saucy, sexy romance novels

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to launch a series of steamy, romance novels with gold embossed covers and single word titles.

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How was your lockdown?

I’ll miss lockdown. It was like a series of duvet days. Combined with the fear of death. As an introvert, Corona was my Christmas.

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I have two settings: worried for the world and craving cheese

With lockdown coming to an end, get ready for ‘the new normal’ – a return to the status quo. But what does normal look and sound like? I’m worried I’ve lost any ability to talk to other people. My boss called and said she was just thinking of me. I replied how I hoped I […]

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Seven lockdown habits to break before FREEDOM DAY

"Freedom day" is coming to Britain. Break seven bad habits - one a day and be ready for the big day.

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