It has been a whole year today since I first sent my little book out into the world. When I published, Thrive, I did it for myself, with very few expectations in the way of sales, reviews or reach. It is a small book with a small readership written with the simple hope that it [...]
Tag: dream
Indie Author Life: Getting The Word Out
Dear readers, I still can not describe to you the joy of knowing my work is out in the world. The thrill I get when I see the little book I put so much of myself into in the hands of others. It is a dream come true and I am so grateful for all [...]
Wild & Improbable Tales – A Ghost Of Warmth
At first, it looks like a room full of people. With a languorous certainty, they circulate, moving like the inexorable grace of a glacier, the entrancing dance of the fire. And then you notice something strange: there are no heads, no hands, no legs. They are a sea of jumpers and sweaters, moving as though [...]
NaNoWriMo Check In – Days 3 & 4
Day 3 of #NaNoWriMo and #wrimohero's prompt was #calltoadventure - how do you generate ideas? I get a lot of my ideas from the environment around me. Places, found objects, the weather - my imagination spots the most random and insignificant things as I’m going about my day and runs riot with them! I collect [...]
Taking The Plunge
I wasn't going to do this. I really wasn't going to do this. Why would I? November is ALWAYS one of the busiest months in my year. Extra intervention programmes to run at work means increased workload and longer working hours. My birthday (Yay!) means fun outings with friends and family. Drawing closer to the [...]
Dreaming Seriously
For a very long time I have wanted to be a writer. Wanted to be but never thought I would actually be one because I thought that in order to be a writer I would have to get published or be paid to write in some capacity or another. And I figured neither of those [...]
For The Joy Of It
For a long time I have been saying that I want to write. And for a long time, I haven't. There are all sorts of reasons for that but mainly I never had the time. Which actually means I never made the time. I never made the time because sitting down to write felt like [...]
Reach Out
It's so close you can taste it. You can see the possibility solidifying into a reality, just a little way ahead, but it's fragile: fuzzy and fluctuating like a mirage in the desert heat. But it's there. You could make it real. You have to reach out and grasp hold of that dream. You have [...]
Work-Life Imagined – Career Visioning
We spend so much of our lives working. Sometimes we just take a job that will pay the bills but, if we are lucky, or if it is in our power to do so, we can create opportunities for career development that will enable us to earn a living doing something we love. I've been [...]
Sleep won…
So I drafted a whole fabby blog post for today about a great little activity I came up with, and yesterday evening I was supposed to type it up and take the pictures and schedule it to appear this morning. I didn't do that. Instead I fell asleep on the sofa and dreamed a very [...]
Thrive In Chaos 