Confessions of a Writer with Too Many Ideas and Not Enough Time

I launched a Substack series called The Reader’s Guilty Pleasures: 10 Weeks of Bookish Fun—a joyful deep-dive into the weird, the wonderful, and the downright questionable things we do as readers. (Yes, I sniff books. No, I won’t apologize.)

The original plan? Procrastinate writing my new novel, A Sea of Blood and Tears, by pretending to be Very Productive Online™.

But guess what? The muse—drama queen that she is—decided now is the perfect time to storm in wearing velvet and throwing plot twists like confetti. I’m trying to run a lighthearted Substack here and she’s shouting, “Write, you fool!”

So now I’m juggling a weekly writing series, a raging novel, and the eternal guilt of not posting enough #content.

Do I bow to the beast that is social media? Or surrender to my muse, who smells like old books and bad decisions and is, let’s be honest, the love of my life?

👉 Come join the chaos: https://substack.com/@lyndaredwards

Bring your guilty pleasures. I’ll bring mine.