Accountability: not as official or boring as you’d think

For those who want to know, I’m reporting back about Himself’s progress on his book. My intervention went pretty much as scripted, and if you missed that post, you can read back over it here. At the end, Himself was ready to go, excited and energised to be writing his...

Go Hard or Go Home vs Softly Softly

Writing advice online. There’s a ton of it out there, and seeing as I’m not writing a book at present, I thought I’d spend some time looking at it. Talk about falling down the rabbit hole! I think I lost a week or two. (What year is this?) But it was...

Your plan = your power

This is an excerpt from an eBook I’m writing at present, that you’ll be able to download for FREE pretty soon. (And I’m just going to say that it’s taking a LOT of restraint to be this low-key about it. I’m loving this eBook so hard right...

On knitting and urgency

It’s been a while. How are you all? I hope your celebrations and New Year have been beautiful, filled with the things you love. Possibly even with a tiny bit of time squeezed in somewhere for writing! For my part: life has moved apace for me and the community I...

Why write at all? (and the 3 things writers forget)

If you’re some way into your writing – either your career or your book – then you’ll most likely have thought this at some point: Why write at all? It’s one of those thoughts that comes after you find yourself thinking, “I seem to...