For those who follow the British Fantasy Awards, you may know that one short-listed nomination for the Best Anthology is Kristell Ink’s Fight Like A Girl, edited by Joanne Hall and Roz Clarke. If you don’t know, this is a …
A Summer Writing Update
One of the most common questions new writers ask focuses on the ‘best‘ way to write. Whether this is a question of routines or order or projects, or even the act of actually getting words on the page. If you’ve …
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: July 2017
“Faerie-folk gather in the woodland glades, and frolic beside moss-banked streams; the fires of summer burn green and gold, and everywhere there is high magick afoot!” – Michele Morgan July was exhausting. I met my final deadline early, but not without …
Writer’s Well-being 6 :: Meditation
As a Mental Health Practitioner, I have been experimenting with well-being exercises that support my writing, and I want to open up discussions about writer’s well-being. Well-being is defined as “the state of feeling healthy and happy” by the Cambridge …
Study Update
My post-graduate course is done. Over. Finished. Providing all goes smoothly… (fingers crossed!) This week has been exhausting, so no specific post for this week. I’ll probably reflect in the July-reflection post but for now, things are just very …
Plans for Reading 2017 :: Months 7-12
Those of you who have followed my blog since last year know I’m completing a university qualification while I work. My final deadline is in two week’s time, although having to fit this all around work, I’m aiming to give …