Catégorie : Writer Mom

Weekly Writing Diary: Why starting a business blog is​ rough, why writing a novel is though

Monday, Day 58

Note to the readers: I’m talking a bit about blogging this morning. Don’t worry, I haven’t came up with a online course on « How to make money with a blog » and I’m not selling anything. Thanks for being here.

Are you a blogging too, dear fellow writers?

If not, you are certainly doing something about that famous author platform stuff anyway!

I’ve started blogging just for fun, or just for the love of books I should say, about seven years ago.

Seven years !

I couldn’t believe it when I went back in time to take a look at that, after reading a newsletter from a businesswoman I truly admired, Angela at StrayCurls.

Some of those articles, written with such naïveté it hurt to look at it, were full of mistakes and way too many pretty-literary words, hahaha!

I’ve learned a ton about writing blogs since. As a freelance writer for the web, no way around here. But also as a stay-at-home parent who toyed with the idea of starting an online business.

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Weekly Writing Diary: Good old writing tips and hacks for the ​busy-bee authors!

Monday, Day 51

Things change.

Finding time to write is always a challenge, whether you’re a stay-at-home parent, a part-time remote employee like me, or a full-time busy professional.

The overall stress of day-to-day life, of the new « normal » (already tired of this expression), the nights often interrupted by some nightmares and other kiddo’s « but I’m thirsty » moments.

Now that it takes kiddo more time to fall asleep, both my naptime and evening writing sessions had not been as productive as they were.

As for the new day-job, well it’s new. The learning process is slow, giving that I’m working with people who seem to find it normal to take 35 minutes to find an Excel document on a computer…

*Grumble* *Grumble* *Grumble*

Nothing a good writing tip can’t fix though!

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Weekly Writing Diary: Writing Slump

Monday, Day 37

You know that nagging feeling, fellow writers?

That feeling of forgetting something you promised yourself you weren’t gonna forget?

In front of the ex-YA project revision, or surrounded by the handwritten (so far) MG Fantasy project, I keep… doing something else. Like trying to write a post, erase it, try again only to erase it again.

At some point, I stopped everything and forced myself to understand what the heck was my problem today.

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