Category: writing

5am. 500 words. So pleased to have got straight back into the swing of things after a long weekend. That is all.

I’m writing at night. It’s taken 5 days to get there, but I have. And I remember how much I dislike it. I wrote 120 lovely words this morning, in the back seat of the car on the way to a friend’s place for lunch. But, I was the driver …

This post is brought to you by a day off, a sleeping puppy (well maybe one eye open), a chirping cockatiel and 2 sleeping kiddos. Today is the day between the weekend and Melbourne Cup Day. A fabulous public holiday that falls on a Tuesday, making the Monday a very …

I’m on the train again. And today I did not want to write. I procrastinated through the whole 2 train trips to my destination. But on the way home, I just opened up the iPad, connected the Bluetooth keyboard and did it. Hit around the 400 word mark. And have …

Train writing today! 350 words or so. Which is good. But… OK.. so I need to get this out there. I’m writing number 2 of a junior fiction series that I’ve written number 1 for. I feel reasonably good about number 1. Number 2 however… number 2 be dragging. It …

This is the day filled with hope and good intentions. That plans made will become goals achieved. Days where the alarm goes off at 5am and I GET OUT OF BED. I mean. Really? This is great. And hopefully that greatness will keep me going for a whole month. Yes, …

So, I just dumped my manuscript into the Hemingway app, and it highlighted hard to read sentences. It also, for reasons I don’t understand, highlighted the words/phrase “just”, “really” and “I think”. I really lean on those a lot! Anyhoo, I popped back over to my friend Microsoft Word and …

Let’s add this to the list of things that only happen to me. I was out at a bar with friends. It was busy, so shared a table with 2 other lovely ladies, with whom we had exchanged sufficient pleasantries to understand they were school teachers, had been at the …

I love a challenge. Last year, I ran 1000km. I put the goal in runkeeper, I told a few people what I was doing, and then I ran 20km every week (mostly), until on 30 December, I hit 1000.1km. The year before that, I ran a marathon. I don’t even …

OK OK! So, I said I’d blog daily in November. We’re at day 15, and this is my 4th blog post. This has not gone well. However, I have been doing the other things. I’ve been writing, and running. And sleeping and reading and listening to audio books and catching …

Herewith is a list of stuff I got done today: Pulled apart two pieces of hard rubbish furniture and repainted them. Mr 10 helped, which made it much more fun. The items are: A full length mirror with a door that opens for jewellery storage. And one of those funky …

You may have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Authors everywhere sign up to write their 50,000 word novels in the month of November, by writing and tracking about 1600 words per day. Inspiring stuff. So inspiring, that I thought I’d join in. But I’m not writing a novel. …

After a whack to the jaw with a hockey stick, we thought it might be prudent to take our eldest for a slight detour on the way home from hockey last weekend. A slow, long, sitting around forever detour to the emergency department. Don’t get me wrong. It’s an impressive …

I’m currently doing Jen Storer’s fabulous Scribbles course. And there’s a whole section about naming your characters. I’m pretty lazy when it comes to this. I go through my kid’s friends and pick the one that most closely matches the character I’m thinking of, or the syllable count I want …