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Look. See the water on the steps? Yep. That's rain. Rain, I tell ya! Oh, happy days. Perfect weather for plannin', dreamin' and schemin'. Do you plan your year in advance? Do you set goals? I do. Kind of... If you subscribe to girl and duck (and why wouldn't you?) Â you would have received an …
What's happenin', duckie? It's Christmas! Well, nearly. We're on the slippery slope but I've decided not to lose the plot this year. Instead... I'm systematically working through our house. So far we have one festive, almost pristine, room. The dining room. Naturally. We painted it. White. It used to be green. Green, I tell you! Did …
Hey, sleepy head. Did you miss Part One? You can read it here. Okay, so I've eased up a bit. This next lot? Not so hard-arse. 5. Always begin with pen and paper. Go to the computer later but connect your hand to your brain first. It’s a physical thing. Our imagination is stimulated by …
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Got on your thick skin? Here we go! 1 Don’t die with your book in you. Write. Learn. Commit to doing the grunt work. Stop thinking about writing and write. Don’t expect your first book to be a bestseller. Don’t even expect it to be published. Want to write a series? I went along to see …
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1. Garamond is my lucky font. Good things happen when I write in Garamond. 2. I don’t read anything in my own genres. Especially anything that’s doing well. It intimidates me. 3. I drink my tea from different cups at different times of the day. My first cup is in a china mug that's the …
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