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
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?
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…
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?”
I love the phrase “aggressively unhelpful”—it’s very diplomatic. Coined by Katy Weber, who interviewed me for her Women & ADHD podcast.
Here are 26 things I wish I’d known before…
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…
What are you doing just because you’ve always done it?
Can you stop doing it? What does that create space for?
If there was a cheat code for “you can do the splits right now, injury free, if you just press this sequence of buttons” I’d be all over it because I’m basically lazy.
But how about painting?
Or dancing?
How about *writing*?
