There’s a great deal of chatter online at the moment about the mental health of everyone still in lockdown and stuck at home. I can vouch for that, and I even know why. The first two weeks of being stuck at home, I could not get my shit together for neither love nor money. I […]
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This Is The New Normal In April, 14 Million people in the USA applied for unemployment benefits. Six million people applied for emergency assistance in Canada. Around the world, the numbers of unemployed and those with reduced income are proportional to populations. Last week, my government spoke for the first time about the duration of
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Just a quick post this week. I’m getting back into the working groove and suddenly becoming (re)aware of the plethora of distractions that can lure you away from your manuscript–especially when you’re working at home, which is pretty much all of us right now. When you’re at home, you don’t have people looking over your
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Words used to flow easily for me. Not so much, these days. I — like you, I am sure — am struggling to get words down in a regular manner. The puzzling thing for me was why am I struggling? I’m not sick. No one in my immediate family is sick (thanks to whoever
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Well. Who saw that coming? The last time I posted anything, I blithely spoke about getting back to normal, picking up the traces, after being handed a life roll that flattened me for a while. Then Covid19 reached Canada and the borders were closed and… …I should probably back up a bit, because just like
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YouTube allowed creators to monetize their channels a few years ago. That resulted in an ocean of video content being uploaded A great deal of that content is information or instructional in nature. If ever you wonder where the how-to blogs all went to (remember those?), then browse YouTube for 20 minutes, and type “writing
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Fast Does Not Equal Crap…but here’s what does. 2020 Edition. I received yet another review the other day, marvelling at the high standard of writing, which surprised them, given how fast I write books (and they don’t know about the other pen name, either). I sighed and moved on…I thought. Only, my brain kept
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It’s one of life’s bizarre anomalies. I stopped writing blog posts, and traffic shot up when I did. I won’t read the obvious into that. 😊 But it has been an interesting few weeks “off”. I have been doing a lot of other stuff in the meantime—some seismic scale shifts in direction and focus
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“When jarred unavoidably by circumstance, revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it.” – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever been on a roll–everything is clicking along smoothly? You’re writing regularly and when you should,
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Last week I spoke at length about stashing your time–well, stashing anything you can, actually, as a hedge against the vagaries of the publishing industry. Stashing time is a matter of deliberately working ahead of your production schedule. (And if you don’t have a production schedule–a timetable of releases–then you’re missing the backbone of
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