Tag: Writer’s Log
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Writer’s Log: A Tale of Two Book Covers
Who knew fonts would be so difficult. When I finished the second draft of the book, I headed out to find a book cover. Having heard all the arguments against using AI or Canva to create a book cover myself, and not trusting my own graphic skills, I did what…
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Writer’s Log: Summer Struggles
Wherein my health collapses like a poorly built house of cards. It feels an age since I last posted my writer’s log and that is because it has been over a month. Just after my last post, as though the universe had heard my note of serenity and decided that…
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Writer’s Log: Serenity
Finding peace in chaos. Last weekend I realised that for the first time in a very long time I felt a sense of peace. Not that my life is perfect but just that I feel like I am consciously back in the driving seat instead of being ruled by the…
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Writer’s Log: Taking Shape
When it all starts to come back together. I feel a bit like a Terminator who has been melted down (almost literally in the past heatwave) and I’m beginning to reform; small puddles of metal slowly magnetically attracting each other and coming back together. This last week was a challenge.…
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Writer’s Log: Sunnier Days
Celebrating small wins. Things are still tough but they are moving in the right direction. Physically I am feeling the strongest I’ve felt since the beginning of February. I’m still not completely back to ‘normal’ – for a value of normal when you have chronic illnesses – but I am…
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Writer’s Log: When Plans Melt…
Like ice cream on a sunny day. The UK has had a heatwave this past week. It has been hellish. Hot. Sticky. Humid. Fans at full blast. Everyone being sleep deprived enough that you can hear the thread of sharp tension in voices. Pets trying to find the most shady…
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Writer’s Log: Health First
Because you can’t write without it. Health has to come first. It is the fundamental truth of adulting and life which nobody really tells you out loud until you’re already sick and flailing. Well. Nobody explicitly told me, which I think is a pretty common feature for Gen X. ‘Work’…
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Writer’s Log: Keep on climbing that hill
Even when you keep sliding down it. It has been a while since my last writer’s log in mid-March. Two and a half months later, here I am surfacing after what feels like two and a half months of simultaneously treading water and feeling like I’m drowning. Last time, I…
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Writer’s Log: Chronic means chronic
Living with a chronic illness means it never goes away. I have struggled over the past three weeks. I’m still struggling. When last I blogged, I was celebrating finding time to write, carving out space even if it was a small amount almost every day to keep writing. I’d succeeded…
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Writer’s Log: Finding the ‘write’ time
Or, in other words, actively finding time to write. My focus at the beginning of the year has been on ensuring that I carve out time to write, fully making it a priority in amongst everything else that I juggle and the continuing illnesses which plague me (the flu making…
