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  • Like Wholesome Cocaine for Your Soul

    None of us has any control over a global pandemic or other people’s behaviour or thoughts or actions. I don’t think we’ve ever lived through a time of such uncertainty. And yet I was trying to control it anyway. Perhaps you were, too. That’s what humans do; we try to control stuff.

    Which is, quite simply, exhausting.

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  • Your body is incredible

    Be grateful for what you can do.

    Your body and mind (which are inextricably linked) are incredible. What you can do with them is wondrous.

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  • Writing lessons from Beetrice ?

    Remember this next time you're stuck. Remember it when something threatens to derail your plans to write. Be more like Beetrice, focused on writing your book.

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  • Take it like a writer

    Criticism and feedback can feel like eating kiwi fruit with the skin on: uncomfortable, even painful, leading to shortness of breath.

    But only for a few minutes. Maximum 7 minutes. Then I have to pull myself together and crack on.

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  • Just be yourself okay?

    Our brains are wired that way, to always see the bad - the problem - rather than the good. It used to keep us alive back when we lived in caves.

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  • One 3-star review ⭐⭐⭐

    Our brains are wired that way, to always see the bad - the problem - rather than the good. It used to keep us alive back when we lived in caves.

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  • Living with purpose

    My purpose is to write. To share my stories and other people's stories - especially those people whose voices are muffled and marginalised. People who stand up for humanity and thoughtfulness and against oppression and cruelty and blind adherence to a doctrine that makes no sense.

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