by Charlie | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hands up if you have a habit of buying nice notebooks… …that just sit on the shelf because you can’t quite bring yourself to use them? Or maybe you have six notebooks, all with only a couple of pages filled. Why do we do this? Often it’s to do with...
by Charlie | Jan 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Perhaps the hardest part of writing a novel is reaching the end of a first draft, bringing into solid being something that doesn’t actually exist yet, except as shards of ideas in your mind. Doing it alone with no support, accountability or people to tell you to...
by Charlie | Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Set yourself the right goals for 2021, based on what you really want rather than what you think you should want and what’s realistic within your life. We’ll start with a review of 2020, celebrating the good and identifying things that aren’t working,...
by Charlie | Oct 14, 2020 | Writing Tips
Does anyone even remember their goals and dreams from January at this point? I mean. Mine are in my planner so I have an idea of what they were, but… let’s say I’m not entirely on track. You know what though? It doesn’t matter. This year...
by Charlie | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
We can’t go to the writing retreat… so the writing retreat is coming to us. I’ve seen people posting “Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantined for the plague!”, as though we should all be able to sit down and pour out a masterpiece...
