Wedding, Inktober and Writing – oh my!
The last half of 2018 has been a little crazy, here are a couple of highlights!
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The Water Crisis Diaries: A New South Africa
The crisis isn’t really over. We have a new terrifying mascot to emphasize this point. But it feels like the worst has passed. I really hope it has.
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The Water Crisis Diaries: Hope
Two pieces of good news today have me breathing a little easier.
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The Water Crisis Diaries: Fear and loathing in Cape Town
It’s against my culture as a South African to show fear. We are a nation of fighters. And when we can’t fight, when the enemy is something as unyielding as the sky, then we make a plan. I feel guilty for being afraid.
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The Water Crisis Diaries: Some day this will go in a novel… part 1
Cape Town is heading for disaster. Approaching doom is an interesting headspace and I’m gonna document it.
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How to write a novel in Microsoft Word
My trilogy is currently sitting at 316,078 words, which amounts to 732 Microsoft Word pages. It’s all in a single doc. A few people I’ve chatted to seem to think that you need some fancy writing software to write something length, but that’s simply not the case. Here’s what I do, and hopefully it can help you too.
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Life update: Having my cake and eating avo toast
Sunday afternoon saw us driving frantically across Cape Town trying to hit as many Checkers stores as we could before closing time. …
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How I beat procrastination
I mean “beat” in the present tense, of course. Because beating procrastination is an ongoing battle. For someone prone to procrastination, there’s no such thing as winning. You’re pretty much working against your own brain constantly in order to get important things done.
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A year of writing, a year of doodles
A year ago I shared a portrait of my main character, Tarra. Now, in honour of our anniversary, I thought I’d share some of the doodles and drawings I’ve done of her and her universe over the course of a year.
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How to keep writing
I don’t finish projects, or computer games, or even TV series. So how on Earth have I managed to stick with this novel for this long? Well, I’ve given it some thought and I’ve put those thoughts into writing here in hopes that they can help others like me.
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