Overcoming My Writing Fears

Overcoming My Writing Fears

Fear is a friend and an enemy. It can protect us and keep us safe. But it can also keep us small, preventing us from stepping up and out. For many years, I let fear stop me from writing creatively. I was afraid of what people would think or say, and afraid of failure...
Writing Every Day

Writing Every Day

My goal for January was to write every day. It didn’t matter what I wrote or for how long, I just had to write. After a difficult 2021, I’d got out of the habit and had written very little. I had lots of projects that I’d started but not finished, including a...
Making some life changes

Making some life changes

It’s been a long time since I posted on here. At the start of the year I had hopes of posting a weekly column, blogging regularly and maybe publishing a feature or two. I was determined 2019 would be the year I finally gave my writing, including this blog, the time it...
New Year, New Blog

New Year, New Blog

I’ve decided to revive this blog! It is the new year after all and everyone, myself included, is full of enthusiasm for their new year’s resolutions. I’ve done this before, of course, back in January 2016, when I made the resolution to write a weekly...
Wedding planning and writing

Wedding planning and writing

Organising our wedding is taking up a lot of my time, but I am managing to snatch some writing time here and there, so I have to be grateful for that. I came home from work on Monday with the intention of spending the evening writing. The weather was absolutely...

Writing update

It’s been a long time since my last update, so there’s a lot to catch up on. The most exciting thing is that I’m now being mentored by two novelists. Susan Elliot Wright and Russ Thomas are supporting me as I write my running book. I’m very...