Tag: Article
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Writer’s Log: Getting My Groove Back
Getting back to basics and giving myself grace Balancing all the things I need to do in life and all the things I want to do has proven challenging. It was evident to me from the last quarter review and my efforts in June that my previous style of planning…
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Writer’s Log: Forgetting Memory Monday
“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Back when I started my website I determined that to drive some traffic to it I would start using my tumblr to advertise what I was posting since I already had a small number of people following me there and…
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Writer’s Log: Quarterly Review (Q2 Year 1)
A mixed success in the last three months. At the beginning of March, I posted an update examining some of the website data from my first three months versus my goals and explored whether I felt the website had been a success. With another quarter over, I’m taking another look.…
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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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Inspirational Women in Fiction
Celebrating International Women’s Day – let’s inspire inclusion! It is International Women’s Day, and I thought in this article, I’d feature fictional women who have inspired inclusion for me in my life. The Women of Star Trek I think Star Trek as a franchise is a living historical documentation of…
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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…
