With every year that motors on, I take time to reflect on the highs, lows, and lessons learned along the way. Goals for 2019 Each year I set only a few goals I want to achieve. I find the more goals I plan for, the less I achieve. This year I set 3 for myself: Writing: Editing and publishing Sydney’s Boxer, my 1st novel Lose weight Taking control of my finances Goal 1: Writing 2018 was a bumper writing year for me where my first novel, Sydney’s Boxer was 2nd runner-up in ... Read the Post
Reflecting on 2019…
Writing Retreat…
There’s something magical about going to a different destination. Breaking away from everything going on in your life to focus on yourself for a change. That’s exactly what I did when I took myself away from my family, my job, my social life, to concentrate on my writing. In my last post, I was battling to stay motivated in the re-writing of my novel, Sydney’s Boxer. I felt as if I wasn’t making progress. I was questioning why I’d decided to rewrite anything as it was taking forever to finish. ... Read the Post
The Writing Process…
I’ve been feeling despondent in my fiction writing. When I committed to writing a novel two years ago, I thought I had finally overcome the fear barrier of this mammoth task and was building courage in reaching my dream. Little did I know that writing a novel wasn’t the hard part, deciding what to do with it after was! It also didn’t help that I’d entered my novel into a writing competition in 2018, coming in as the 2nd runner-up. The immense pressure of the competition had taken its toll on ... Read the Post
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