Writing a novel – Page 10 – Marie Alice Writes & Reads

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 adventures and punch in the heart

Monday, Day 44

Here we go again, dear writer friends! A new writing week is awaiting, full of adventures and exciting moments.

Positive much today, the mama writer? Heck yeah !

For I need to kick the writing slump in the bottom and get back to it.

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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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