This is the most common question that any author is asked. Where do you get your ideas? Mine are mainly a product of what I have absorbed as I go through my daily life (which is why the coronavirus lockdown has been particularly tricky. There’s a limit to how much you can absorb when your life is so very quiet.)…
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Where do your ideas come from?
School’s out!
It’s the last day of school for my kids, the end of the weirdest term that I can ever remember. Normally they would be celebrating with cups of hot chocolate in a café followed by the exchange of secret Santa gifts and time spent lolling around in bedrooms laughing about stuff that’s funny when you’re a teenager. But not this…
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Inclement weather
I keep a record of the weather each day. It’s not a very sophisticated system, an icon scribbled in my bullet journal, but I do it religiously. So, I know that for 21 days in November and 13 days so far in December it has either rained or been total grey cloud cover where I live. All my favourite walks…
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Wassail wassail.
I sang Christmas carols today for the first time in 2020. For context, in a normal year I spend most of December singing carols in various settings – churches, hospitals, schools, old folks’ homes. Not this year, for obvious reasons. And this is why today’s little sing was so precious. Six singers, outside, at two metres distance and singing carols…
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Procrastination
On Wednesday I got the editorial notes for book 7. On Thursday I read them. They were fine. Nothing major to fix. On Friday I had a video conference with my editor. Nothing to worry about. All edits perfectly doable. On Saturday I didn’t start. On Sunday I didn’t start but I tidied loose ends up ready for a good…
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