• Writing Journey

    It’s a wrap on Novel 2

      a milestone worth celebrating? I’m happy to announce that I finished my 2nd Novel today. Yay! maybe, kinda, sorta I say yay, but in truth it feels like an anti-climax. Not sure why? Perhaps it’s just the nature of being an unpublished and un-agented writer. Or perhaps it’s because I don’t belong to a writing group who can share in the highs and lows of writing milestones. Or perhaps it’s because I have to keep the contents a secret. Or perhaps I have moved past those heady days where writing was but a dream. Yes, I think it might be the latter. You see, I no longer think of…

  • Writing Tips

    3 F’s for Writers

    This is one of several Archive posts after losing 3 years of content a little while back (you can read that here). Are you complicating your writing life? If you… Treat writing like a hobby, Spend more time on social media than writing, Have more WIPs than completed Manuscripts, and Focus on publishing versus building a portfolio.. Then you might want to simplify your writing life by incorporating the 3 Fs into your writing philosophy. 1. FOCUS The first step to simplifying your writer life is to reassess your role as a writer and adjust your FOCUS… In the 21st Century, writers are expected to do a lot more than…