The gut is your colleague, parents and writers!
Mother’s instinct vs. writer’s instinct As a mother AND writer I am truly grateful for my gut agreeing to help me with both. Parenting AND writing. Because: A child is…
Authors, there’s no shortcut!
Don’t ALL artists need years of practise before going public? Since the advent of self-publishing, writers seem to be the only artists often thinking they can just skip and shortcut…
Loosen up your inner boss: important flexibility
How to keep a writer writing: organisation, and flexible continuity — or continuous flexibility? Creativity as such isn’t that hard to come by. Ideas can come in snippets or not…
On mourning a failed story …
… and saving it again It happens to all of us. No matter where in our career we are, how long we’ve been doing this, professionally or not, no matter…
Story first — kill your darlings!?
The thin line between accuracy and boredom To be honest with you, I never understood the often-cited dictum of “kill your darlings” in writing. Every writer has them, just like…
Editing: on grooming the stray novel-dog
How to turn a dishevelled novel-mongrel into something readers wanna hug — with Scrivener I can smell the finish line. I’m close, almost done. In fact, today I sat paralysed…
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