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.
Wherever you are on your book writing adventure, you’ll find what you need here…
What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
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.
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.
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?
"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".
I rage Google stuff all the time. The results that came at me were mostly listicles about how not to be chronically late, why people who are late are basically the devil, or pop-psychology.
“Why don’t you enter the Pole Theatre competition?” I’m not…
Sometimes, people tell me they hate their book. Their work in progress.
On occasion, I say it myself, about a book I’m working on.
“Okay,” I say. “That’s okay.”
And then I ask: “What do you mean by hate?”
Picture the scene: you’re reading David Sedaris. “Although I had…
If your drive to write a book is big enough, time doesn’t have to be the reason you don’t get it done.
The first time I picked up…
What if I told you that you don’t have to wait for a magic sky fairy to give you permission to create? And you could be inspired any damn time you like?
If I wanted a list of places I could possibly visit, I’d Google it.
I often do, actually, and end up visiting none of them.
I get overwhelmed with the amount of choice shoved in my face, and that mental overload causes the kind of mini-meltdown that I wouldn’t even want my cats to witness…