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What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead

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  • Trouser holes, boxes, and truncheons 👖🎁

    My face is one giant grin right now because I’m reading the reviews coming in from yesterday’s Find Your Funnybone microworkshop.

    Julia’s starts with:

    “The “find your funny bone” workshop had all the elements of a perfect workshop…”

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  • Is there something you believe enough to fight for?

    Do you know what your most powerful weapon is in fighting the current rise of fascist ideas and literally saving the world?

    It’s your brain. Your voice. Your ideas.

    The words you use and how you put them together to subvert and combat misinformation, cruelty, and outright lies.

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  • Planting seeds, pavement cracks, and an Author Showcase

    Have you ever created something and then just thought it’s the best thing you’ve ever done?

    That's sort of how I feel about MicroBook Magic.

    Back in November 2022, when the world was starting to get back to normal after all the Covid lockdowns, I realised something was changing.

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  • Feck perfuction

    Beauty lies in the gaps. In the imperfections.

    Because the imperfections are what makes life interesting.

    The way the trapeze spins slightly faster than you were anticipating, so your movement quality changes almost imperceptibly and surprisingly, and your face makes a different shape to the one you were planning — but it works.

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  • Don’t make me plan – I just wanna start

    One of my MicroBook Magicians asked me this week — what if I don’t feel like planning today? What if I just want to dive right in? I want to write write write but I know I need to research some stuff!

    And to that I say: HURRAH!

    Fill yer boots, because there is no wrong way to write a book.

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  • There are (almost) no straight lines in nature ❄️

    Progress is never linear.

    It never takes us in a straight line from bad to good to excellent.

    It’s a wiggle.

    I’d like to think the wiggle trends upwards but we have to give it time to do that. Two data points aren’t enough, because that gives us the illusion of a straight line but it’s not, really.

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  • We need to talk about authenticity 😬 🫣

    When literally everyone with a megaphone on social media tells us we must be authentic, our true and unedited selves, or we’ll fail at business, life, and the 100m relay, try this instead:

    Don’t.

    Nobody wants our 100% true and unedited and authentic selves.

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  • Through tinted glasses

    I am currently obsessed with the TV show New Amsterdam.

    It’s fabulous brain-out beautiful people in unlikely storylines telly.

    But it also gets me thinking about perspectives, and how we badly need stories from people who don’t look, sound or live like us.

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  • How to create writing inspiration on tap

    My friend, if you’ve ever thought you need inspiration to strike in order to write your book, LET ME TELL YOU about inspiration.

    We’ve been sold a lie by antique romantic poets who — let’s be honest — were all off their tits on opium.

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