Plowing On
In face, despite the underlying feeling of discouragement, it is quite good fun. I mean the work on setting up a bookstore and a publishing company as much as anything. We’re drawing to the close of yet another semester and I have – sort of – time on my hands to do all the work [...]
Focus
Perhaps I am doing too many things all at once, but it just seems to be the right time for everything! Out with the old and in with the new. And in many ways every single one of my little projects is linked one with the other – they all have to do with writing [...]
Down Day
Today is definitely a ‘down day’. The weather is bad, the air heavy, emotions depressed. Perhaps it’s all the extra work and research that I’ve been doing recently, trying to get everything ready to launch my little project; all the extra things that have to be thought of; all the paperwork which needs to be [...]
Awaiting Publication
I finally have a first proof copy of my new short story in my hands, ready to be published in small format as a book. It is a very good feeling, much better than seeing a listing on Kindle for an eBook! There is no set date for publication of A New Beginning though, too [...]
Time For Change
Anyone who has been following me for the last three years (and a few days, I missed my third blogging anniversary on May 12!) will already know where many of my interests have been in the past. I have written much about erotica; about the discovery of myself and my sexuality; about life as a [...]
Petty Annoyances
It’s all very well using a spellchecker to make sure that what you have written is correct, as far as spelling goes, but what happens when you write a word down which is correctly spelled, but the wrong word? I must admit, I have been a little bit lazy recently. I have relied on my [...]
The End Of Crowd-Funding
At least, the end as far as I am concerned for the time-being. After nearly two weeks of waiting I finally received a reply from someone at the last crowd-funding site I had thought of using to help find sponsors for my small press company. A straight refusal. Now, I can handle refusals without any [...]
Research
The thing about writing, no matter what it may be, is that you need to get your facts as close to reality as is humanly possible. Much of the time spent in the lead-up to a writing project, certainly for me, is checking that what I want to write when it connects to a certain [...]
It’s Only Writing…
I don’t know how some people – like J. K. Rowling for example – manage to write in public, sit themselves down in the same café or restaurant each day and produce their work from beginning to end. I can do it, but only if it is somewhere I am unknown, or where, better still, [...]
Despite The Sun And Warmth…
I am sitting at my desk and crunching words out on my computer. While the desire to write is always there, sometimes the words are lacking. Not exactly writer’s block, but something close to it: that time when you have the idea but not the beginning, when you sit in front of a blank screen [...]
It’s Not The Same
There was a time when a small notebook – and I mean the type made of paper! – was all I needed. A quick note here and there, a few sentences strung together, a reminder of things to do. Going back to using a notebook full time, which I am forced to do at the [...]
The Hardest Loss
It’s hard for other people to appreciate, not having the experience, but some things are almost vital for life. In my case, because of my disability, it is a means of communication. There are few people who can sign, fewer still who have the patience to wait while someone writes down the words they wish [...]
Being Honest and Making Progress
It has been a hard week, a lot of time spent working on the new web site, on sorting out personal finances, on preparing and setting up campaigns to get my project off the ground. And, in-between, I’ve still got college, I’ve still got a normal life and – rarely, but still – there are [...]
Here’s Hoping!
I think that I must have burned the whole package of candles over the last couple days: working through the night to get my new web site up and running, putting on content, checking facts and figures, formatting and checking potential publications and, in between all that, checking various web sites, pages, social media to [...]
Back To Work
When I looked at the clock a few hours ago I discovered it was six in the morning and the sun had already begun to lighten the sky. I worked on my new project – Viktoria Michaelis Publications – right through the night. On the one side, not a good thing. On the other: I [...]
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