Category: Writer’s Log
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Writer’s Log: April Storms
A storm of writing amidst windswept plans. It feels like April has blown through my life like a whirlwind and combined with a squall of ill health, has left behind scattered parts of plans like a dropped set of crayons – some bits in better and usable shape than others.…
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Writer’s Log: So many ideas, so little time
The problem with having time is that even when you have a lot of it, there doesn’t ever seem to be enough. With rest and recuperation the focus for the majority of March, writing wise the latter couple of weeks were turned over to my Big Moxie projects, centred around…
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Writer’s Log: Rest, recuperation and replanning
Taking time for recovery At the beginning of March I left my job with the goal of refocusing on writing. I was excited, I was enthusiastic…and I was exhausted. As someone with chronic illnesses, one of them being Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as M.E.), it wasn’t surprising that I…
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Writer’s Log: Let’s get into the data
Looking at how my website did in its first quarter At the end of January, I posted a log examining how the first couple of months on the website had gone, and I’d thought I’d do another log examining the whole first quarter of the website. Previously a consultant by…
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Writer’s Log: Plans, plots and the journey ahead
Switching career tracks to focus on writing is scary but I’m doing it anyway This coming Friday I will leave my current job and for the first time in eleven years start working for myself. It’s not the first time that I’ve worked for myself, but back when I did…
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Writer’s Log: Is having a website dedicated to writing worth it?
January was my first full month with my writing website. How did I do? Back in December, I decided to get real about my writing in 2024 and set-up this website. It took a couple of days to get the rough shape of the website in place, and then a couple of…
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Writer’s Log: Writing Stories for Me
Putting validation and reward for writing into perspective I was creating fanfiction from an early age, yet I only started to post in 2005 when I got stuck in an endless rejection cycle from book publishers stating, ‘your writing is good, but this isn’t what we’re looking for,’ and wanted…
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Writer’s Log: Looking Forward to 2024
When life gives you lemons…make lemonade to drink while writing Normally I do a review of 2023, but quite honestly, last year was pants. Of my writing projects, I only managed to get 7 new stories posted (10 if I’m generous and include the 3 stories in A Future in…
Storytime with Rachel F Hundred 