Diaries and Research

"You should do something that involves your passion for vintage." My cousin said to me the other day. I thought about this for a moment and of all the Instagram posts of people I follow who dress in original 1940s tea dresses, style their hair with vintage scarves, drive vintage cars and seem to be …

Procrastination

In the spirit of thinking about the writing process and planning I decided to press on with another book idea. Ordinarily all of this creativity shouldn't be discouraged, surely? The trouble is I have my first project still lurking in the background. I have left the characters in limbo. I can hear their whispers, wondering …

Planning Tools

I wrote a book. I wrote a book and then scrapped it. From the ashes of that book I wrote another. The difference between book 1 and book 2 was a plan. You'd think that planning wouldn't be such a novel idea seeing as it's something I implore my students do on an almost weekly …