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February 1, 2016
Top 5 Writing Books For Writing Peoples
So I’m back at work, and although I’m EXHAUSTED, I’m not dead yet. But I am totally cheating and posting a Top 5 List because *brain*. And maybe on Wednesday you’ll get birthday party photos or something, because *more brain*. But anyway O:) 
January 29, 2016
For Your General Amusement. Discing: Spectacle-Wearers Unite
Girl Wearing CD Discs Performs Funny Trick
One reason we wish we wore glasses… Credit: Serenity Fox
Posted by Pretty 52 on Tuesday, 12 January 2016
January 27, 2016
This Is Your Official Permission To NOT Write Every Day
I know, I know. A lot of conventional wisdom about writing recommends a daily writing habit—for exactly that reason: if you write every day, it becomes a habit. Habits, in this case, are good. But.
Conventional wisdom is just that: conventional. It’s often the average of all the options, something that most people can aspire to. But it doesn’t take into account your own personality, or your routine, or anything else unique to your individual circumstances.
Since I read Rachel Aaron’s 2k to 10...
January 24, 2016
When My Subconscious Hates Me, It Throws Me Spiders
True story. I woke up from a nap this afternoon stressed and tensed and icky, because although the nap itself had been good and useful, the last however-long-we-dream-for-before-we-wake-up had been plagued by nightmares. Not the sensible kind, but the awful, uneasy, terrifying kind that your subconscious dishes up to you when it’s really freaking out. Oh, there were a few run-of-the-mill nightmares in there too, about realising I was late for work, or that it was a day later than I thought it...
January 21, 2016
January 11, 2016
All The Exciting Newsy Things!
January 8, 2016
Writing Fast and Slow
GRRM (George R.R. Martin) is what we call a sloooooow writer. Stephen King is what we call a fast writer. In Chuck Wendig’s 2016 Mandate post, he refers to a comment that he once received from a reader stating that his books were no good and that he ‘settled’ because he wrote too fast. This is, sadly, a terrifyingly prevalent attitude, particularly amongst the literati: slow work is artful work, fast work is hack work.
Excuse me while I go bash my head against a wall for a minute here.
Look,...
January 7, 2016
January 6, 2016
A Writing Manifesto, Courtesy of 2015
I’d rather be writing. That’s not how I planned to start this post, but really, it’s what it all boils down to. 2015 was the year I managed to fall in love with writing again, and let me tell you, it was grand. After a very long slump that started in 2010 when I blitzed through the first draft of Sanctuary in 3 months and deepened when I got postnatal depression in 2012 (something that led me to actually quit writing for a while), in 2013 I starting crawling back to the light again by writing...
