I had a story published in the Writing Cooperative the other day & am really happy about it 🙂 Do what works for you, because ‘you’ is all you have to work with The pursuit of the ‘best way’ to do anything is seductive. 6 secret ways to get traditionally published. 9 writers powerful ways to fight…
NaNoWriMo Resources: all the tools you need to survive a month of writing
Like pretty much everyone I know, I’m doing National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo this year. I love joining in with it because of the community feeling and it gives me a bit of a boot in the backside to write and stick at it every day. I was wish it was NaNoWriMo every month, and…
Art is activism
In case you’re ever, ever feeling like your work is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, or that your work is insignificant in the face of poverty or world hunger….or basically that it’s all-round rubbish, here’s two people standing behind you who say otherwise. Keep making, keep failing, keep moving forward. 1: Haruki Murakami,…
Keep making mistakes, I dare you
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot, and I’ve realised that I feel like I need permission to f*ck up. I know I’m not alone in this. So I’m here to tell you, not only is making mistakes okay, you’re totally allowed. I give you permission. It’s the only way we’re ever going…
Learning to learn again
[a personal essay] When I was a child I would try to improve my memory by looking at my nightstand for a minute and then shutting my eyes and trying to name every object that was there. I’d do this everywhere. In shops, at the kitchen table, in the garage while my mother was getting…