First quarter check-in: what I’ve done

I revived this blog as an accountability tool. Seeing as we've officially entered a new season (Autumn for us Antipodeans, Spring for the Northerners out there) I figured it was about time for a check-in. That ole voice-of-doom that resides in my head was up to no good again: as I sat down to review …

The need for speed

In which our heroine commits to a deadline The whole start-writing-at-40 is my version of a mid-life crisis, I guess. You do get this dawning realisation as you get older that life is actually short, even if you're lucky enough to have a long one. If you live to 75, that's 28,000 days. Life is …

The End, again

Another happy ending!

This morning I reached another milestone in my writing: my rewrite is complete. Next step is sending it off to some people!

Have a little flash

Something different this week! For the first time in 5 years, I've published a new short story. I work full-time so I only have a limited amount of time to dedicate to writing. Once I started working on long form projects I realised that it would never get finished if I tried to blog as …