Tag: Writer’s Log
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Writer’s Log: The Art of Juggling
Sometimes you just need to leave balls on the floor The problem is that there are too many things I want to do. There are just so many ideas, so many projects…where do I focus my time and energy? How do I juggle everything? It’s always been the key area…
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Writer’s Log: Building my own sandpit
Why posting original work is terrifying It is terrifying to publish a story. Art of any kind is created from the imagination of the artist – whether a painter, writer, poet or videographer. In many ways we all pull from ourselves to create art, whether our emotions, or past experiences,…
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Writer’s Log: Quarterly Review (Q3 Year 1)
Measuring success or measuring joy? It’s the end of my third quarter and I’ve taken another look at the data to see how the website is progressing. The goals for my third quarter were: These are not SMART goals as I’m not planning to set myself hard targets to be…
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Writer’s Log: Finding Joy
Writing from my heart Back at the beginning of August, I was recovering from a few weeks of terrible, terrible luck. I was picking myself up, celebrating the few things which had gone right, dusting myself off and refocusing. Two of the things I have focused on have been my…
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Writer’s Log: Every Cloud
When life is a series of unfortunate events So, I ended up having the worst luck right at the end of July. I won’t bore you with the details but let’s just say that three opportunities falling through, a burnt hand, injured ankles, delayed projects, and suddenly incurring more unexpected…
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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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