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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Pay what you like for some art!
Sponsor an Inktober day and I’ll make you some art.
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The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater
It’s seldom I read a standalone so satisfying. Stiefvater creates a whole world in such a short space of time with this book.
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Dawn’s Bright Talons – Nerine Dorman
The exquisite descriptive writing brings this story to life.
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Girl of Fire and Thorns – Rae Carson
A fresh and beautifully-written fantasy YA.
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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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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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Authors Magazine – Stoking the Flames
Romance books are a favourite punching bag of the literary world and have been for ages. Is it a coincidence that the most controversial books of the last decade all fall into this genre?
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