This follows on from my previous post: FF is for Feeble Feelings – take a look to remind yourself. Since writing that piece, I’ve noticed a growing trend on social media – authors happy to admit they like nothing more that writing – it’s their happy place, it’s what they can do, it’s where they are most at home. Maybe it’s going too far to […]
What My Writing Habits Are Not For a start, that grammar! My daily writing habits include many routines but I am not here to tell you about confidence, inspiration and success in the writing life. I covered those topics earlier this year. Please follow the links. 5 Daily Writing Habits 5 Periodic Writing Habits Ideas For You My One BAD Writing Habit Honesty compels me […]
How do you use Success?
I have noticed that the crime writers I read are very busy writing the next novel. Their success is fuelling hard work and absorbing their time. This cannot always be easy. My suggestion for the Later Writers reading this site is that you celebrate every time to complete a piece of writing whatever the outcome. Of course you will be thrilled at winning a competition or seeing a story published.
Using inspiration is like knowing where you keep your frozen foodstuffs – they are there when you need them and perfectly safe as long as you keep the freezer plugged in and the contents topped up.
Using confidence is like taking the L plates off your vehicle when you’ve passed your driving test. At some point you can stop thinking about how to drive and just get on with it.
As soon as you wish, you can say “I am a (Later) Writer because I am setting regular time aside to”:..
Whether you’ve had someone to send a loving card to, or whether you received love tokens, love is the key to an author’s life.
What Has Happened?
Nothing much, where my writing life is concerned. Scribbles in notebooks, thoughts muddling in my mind, general malaise and lack of enough energy to write. I’m motivated but motionless.
This is a good point at which to consider Hope …as the United States has a new President and as the United Kingdom rolls out its vaccination program on a large scale. Both countries are up against the Covid enemy and daily life is unrecognisable to many.