Confessions Saturday: what do you do when you’ve finished your WIP?

A little Saturday update for you all, as I get ready to jet off on holiday... The title of this is pretty self-explanatory. A few weeks ago, I typed the last sentence of my WIP. It's done. Done! However many months of blood, sweat and tears have been condensed into one, 100,000-odd word tome. What …

An ode to FanFiction

This week, I got an email that stirred up some old memories. It was from the FanFiction site, and somebody had asked if they could translate one of my old stories into German, which they could then publish on their profile. I didn't really have a problem with it (if anything, I was bamboozled that …

2019: the year I start owning my blog

This might be a little bit of a weird title (I do, after all, already own a blog), but let me explain. All through 2018, having a blog wasn't something I really talked about, barring with you lovely online people. When my parents asked me what I'd been doing with my spare time, I'd mumble …

Discussion: what makes you read a blog post?

Hello, fellow bloggers and readers! What makes you read a blog post? I've been wondering this for a while: it's something that I've toyed with, trying to get right, seeing one post get loads of views and another get practically zero. What attracts you to click on a post? Is it a book-related headline, or …

4 things I do to find blogging inspiration

Who doesn't love a good blog post? More accurately (if you're a blogger, too): who doesn't love the feeling of writing a great blog post, knowing that you've hit the nail on the head and are producing some pretty stellar content, all from a half-remembered thought you had once on the underground? That's the dream! …