I guess I'm going to get some funny looks for this post, but writing is an adorable, yet endless grind. I've been arguing with people today about it today, but we grow, and we learn. And writing is both pleasure and pain, or at least for me. And I'm still stretching my muscles and wearing them in again. I set myself a goal of 100,000 words this year, and I'm already a fifth … [Read more...] about The adorable, endless grind
Archives for January 2014
The ‘brand reboot’ – aka taking my life back (personal perspective)
(this blog post goes with another on Author Interrupted called 'the Brand Reboot - I am what I am'. You might wanna read this one before reading that one though ;)) I've been pretty much at a dead stop since...well, before Kushie died, but since the beginning of the year. And I know why - finally facing the fact that we're probably dealing with secondary infertility, when … [Read more...] about The ‘brand reboot’ – aka taking my life back (personal perspective)
He had a name…
It was 2001. November 2001, just after they'd decided that I'd damaged my pancreas with a few missed gallstones. I'd spent a month in and out of hospital, unable to eat, unable to deal with most of the pain that had consumed me. I dropped from a svelte mother of two who had been merrily breastfeeding and healthily curvy (12 stones or so) to 8 stones and skeletal. I went from … [Read more...] about He had a name…
New Year…sorta….
Yeah, I know, its six days into the New Year and I still haven't done the promised blog here about how this coming year might look. And that's because I'm still not sure. I was working out of the house between September and November (should have been December but I fell in work and gave myself the most impressive concussion I've ever had, therefore finished up a bit early). … [Read more...] about New Year…sorta….