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Wow, I’m so encouraged – a blogger who I’ve found to be a huge blessing to me, April who writes Letters from Lillies, has chosen to include me in the Liebster Awards! It’s such a lovely gesture, so nice to be affirmed by someone whose blog I enjoy so much! I’ve told April that I [...]
Sometimes I blog about stuff I’m struggling with. I’ve written about struggling with depression, with insomnia, with time management issues, etc. Why do I blog about these things? I do it for two main reasons: to get it off my chest, and to bring it into the light. Bringing it into the light serves two purposes: [...]
It’s over two years since I finished the counselling course and I’m still finding stuff that I’d lost back then. I had no idea what that course would cost me, and am still finding out. Continue reading
Some reasons why I don’t When Google+ was new (back in July ) people were saying things like: ooh, isn’t this great, you can write posts as long as you like, so it’s like a blog really. These were presumably people who had arrived on the shores of G+ from the lands of Facebook or [...]
One of the people I follow on Google Plus is an artist, who shares some of his work there. So I get to see this stuff – not by going to an art gallery or buying a magazine or looking at a book in the library or even deliberately going to a photography website [things [...]
“So what is it that you’re doing with yourself these days?” “Are you still working on that novel?” “How are you getting on with finding work in the field you trained for?” I get these questions from well-intentioned people, who are – poor lambs – trying to keep track of what’s going on with me. [...]
Those clunky old things, that made so much noise, and couldn’t do anything else apart from getting text onto paper. There’s a lot to be said for a single-function tool – yes, I love the computer and all the stuff it enables me to do, but its multitasking abilities make it so much harder to [...]
Seriously, I think Project 365 sounds really cool, and I love some of the creative ideas I’m seeing in this post. And I think it’s cool that WordPress offer all sorts of things to help bloggers who are stuck for ideas – there’s this, there’s “post a day“, there are ideas that come up on the screen when you’ve finished a post. I’m sure there are people who find this stuff really helpful.
But in my case, I have the opposite problem – when to find the time to write all the posts I’ve thought of writing. I keep scribbling down ideas and not getting round to it… or I start a post and leave it half-finished, in draft… I wake up with ideas, my problem is sifting them and deciding which ones to go with.
It’s not that I lack ideas, it’s more a case of 365 days in the year and 24 hours in the day not feeling like anywhere near enough…
A guy I read in the Times started his column today by mentioning in passing that he’s had about 130,000 words published in his name so far in 2011, and I thought, wow, that’s enough for a novel, and he’s produced that many words mainly by writing two weekly columns! Which means… maybe I could write a novel? A quick bit of arithmetic showed that Continue reading
Today I wrote about not being such a good friend, on Monday I confessed to really embarrassing insecurities, and, oh, today’s post also included references to depression, which is something that for some stupid reason still carries some kind of stigma and people talk about it in hushed tones. Part of the reason I do [...]
