by Michelle | Apr 13, 2022 | Self-Doubt, writer's block, writing your book
Self-Doubt – How to Stop it From Stealing Your Author Dream My mother shared a memory with me the other day. Apparently, when I was a schoolgirl around the age of seven or eight, the class had to write a ghost story and mine was so detailed that...
by Michelle | Sep 21, 2020 | procrastination, Self-publishing, write
Tough love – according to the Cambridge Dictionary – is ‘the fact of deliberately not showing too much kindness to a person who has a problem so that the person will start to solve their own problem’. Everyone – not just our kids – needs TOUGH LOVE...
by Michelle | Jun 26, 2020 | stuck with your writing, writing your book
Writing your book will take forever if you let it. How long have you been writing your book now? Are you sick of the sight of it yet? Don’t worry. This happens to most of us. Including me. Back in 2018, I’d added an...
by Michelle | Jun 1, 2020 | Creativity, time management for writers
Can a 6am Start Seriously Improve Your Writing? As the sunshine peeps through my half-closed blinds, a cup of tea steams beside me and the birds celebrate the start of a new day, I feel that familiar tingle of excitement. Full creative flow is emerging. This is...
by Michelle | Apr 7, 2020 | procrastination, write
And don’t feed the mind monkeys either! When I was 34 and my children were 18 months and 35 months old, I enrolled on an English degree with the Open University. Literature, writing, books and words had always been my bag, and when I had two babies...
