Catégorie : Writing a novel

Weekly Writing Diary: How to find time to write when you have young kids?

Note to the readers: Thanks for taking the time to read this. I try to answer that impossible question at the end of this post. I’m no expert, just a parent and a writer on a crazy quest. Enjoy!

Monday, Day 72

Labour day today. Will I’ll be able to take advantage of it and write all day?

Noooope ! For a day-off, when you have kids, means doing some activity or some sort.

Today, family is coming over to enjoy an windy lunch.

Talking movies with the family today had me realized why I’m writing in the before-internet era.

No, no, it’s not only because I’m a 35 to 44 years old mom who was becoming quite the misanthrope even before… well, pick your nightmare, dear fellow writers.

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Weekly Writing Diary: Crowded writer’s mind.

Monday, Day 65

Ready, steady… go, day job week !

What a wordy day, full of wordy words.

Did a whole lot of research, a crazy ton of re-writing. And tomorrow does not look like it’s gonna be less mind-crowding.

I’m thinking about working on both writing projects. But writing this, dear fellow writers, I fell asleep.

With a faint feeling of being a failed wanna-be author, plus thinking this is sooooooooooooooooo boring you might pass out reading it, I bid you goodnight.

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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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