The Lightning 10: A Writing Strategy That Works in Just 10 Minutes a Day

Are you struggling to find time to write? This happens to me a lot! Even though I’m a writing coach, life gets busy, and self-doubt often creeps in, too. That voice in your head whispers: 💭 You don’t know what you’re doing.💭 You don’t have time💭 Why bother starting? That’s why I want to share…

Six Strategies to Shut Up Your Mean Inner Critic (So You Can Get on and Write)

Is this making you procrastinate? Today, I want to address one of the most common issues I hear from writers: their mean inner critic keeps convincing them not to write. Most of us have an inner critic, a judge, a mean voice inside our heads who persuades us to procrastinate far more than we’d like.…

4 Tips to Help You Start Writing Again After a Break

My son started school a year ago, so this summer was my first long school summer holiday. I took time off work and enjoyed doing fun mummy-and-son activities!  When September came around, and he went back to school, I wanted to start writing again. This felt both exciting and daunting.  Getting back into the rhythm of it wasn’t…

Why Do We Procrastinate?

I’ve recently spent far more time procrastinating than I’m comfortable with. So I was fascinated to hear Oliver Burkeman discuss why we procrastinate on Rangan Chatterjee’s wonderful ‘Feel Better Live More‘ podcast. I can’t resist sharing these tips as I’m sure you’ll find them helpful too.  In episode 260, in a conversation about Burkeman’s new…

Fun Round-up of Helpful Writing Resources

 This is a fun round-up of helpful writing resources and tips that were shared at a recent London Writers’ Meetup. Books If you’re writing a novel, Save the Cat writes the Novel by Jessica Brody was recommended by a couple of novelists, who both said they found it invaluable for developing and structuring their novels. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was…