It’s been an exciting week here at Casa Moxie. I’ve had a LOT of conversations (way more than usual) so I’ll be spending much of this weekend hiding in a darkened room with my headphones on. But the conversations have been so good. I’ve met some wonderful people.
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Posted on 24 July 2024
If you’re considering not writing your book this year, think again. The world needs your story. If you are any kind of a misfit — if you don’t fit into the straight, white, male, cis-het, neurotypical, wealthy world, or if you have a message and a mission that challenges the status quo — there will be others like you looking for someone like them. Maybe your book will rock their world.
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Posted on 22 July 2024
I got a few scaries: Wriggling through potholes that are only as wide as I am. Sharing a village with people who voted for fascists. Being showered with earwigs. But those are still less scary than standing on a stage with the sole purpose of making people laugh (and think).
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Posted on 18 July 2024
If you want to write a book and you’re not doing it, your problem isn’t that you don’t have time. It’s not that you need more info. And you definitely don’t need another £49 “how to write a bestseller in a week” template. Your problem is that you are not permitted to be bored.
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Posted on 16 July 2024
Standing under the shower, with sunlight dappling through the trees above me, and my feet rooted to the smooth slate stepping stone, I felt peaceful for the first time in… I don’t know. Forever. Through that stone, I could feel the Earth breathing.
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Posted on 12 July 2024
Once upon a time about a year ago, Sarah Silva, the Chemical Translator, wrote a MicroBook called Your Ticket to Explore: Essential preparation for your translation marketing adventures.
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Posted on 10 July 2024
When I used to have a job, I often wondered why it sucked so much.
Of course, part of the problem was me and my attitude. Part of the problem was my undiagnosed AuDHD. -
Posted on 04 July 2024
Everybody worries about being a good storyteller but story ain’t the big banana. Story is just the vehicle for your IDEA .If you don’t have a strong idea and solid point of view, your story will have about as much impact as a fart in a hurricane. Stop worrying about your writing for 5 minutes and focus on your idea.
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Posted on 27 June 2024
For 25 years, I’ve tried to get my shit together. Maybe it’s time I accept that my ducks are going to stay scattered and actually they’re more like geese.
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Posted on 20 June 2024
The Heretics by Will Storr made me mad as hell. I got a handful of pages into it before swearing and banging it down on the bookcase, abandoning it.
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Posted on 18 June 2024
Me: why do I have a headache again? Also me: stares at sleep app showing a sleep debt of 4,184 hours.(I exaggerate but honestly only slightly.) Ah. That might be why my head hurts. And why I can see tweety birds in my peripheral vision. How can my sleep debt be this high?
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Posted on 12 June 2024
"ChatGPT has been down today which means I’ve had to think for myself when writing my ABOUT ME section here on LinkedIn. I think I may have become too reliant on the speed at which it can help me structure my ADHD thoughts".