If You Could Hang Out in a Novel

November is here. The Holidays are just around the corner.

It means there’s a lot of things to do. I’m the kind of mama who wants to have everything ready to go on December 1st, so I can spend the rest of the month eating the advent chocolate and work on my always awaiting writing projects.

Still, I just wanna pour myself a good mug of tea, read novels and stay in my pj all day (which is kinda of what I always do, but whatever).

After all, I’m behind with my Goodreads challenge, which is to read a new book every week. I’m about 11 books behind.
It just makes sense for me to stop working on the writing projects, stop working on my business blog plan, and read full-time, right?

Rest assure, a never ending list of to-do’s is keeping me from giving in.

Not only do I have less time than ever to read in November, but all I really want to do is re-read some of my favourites novels…

If you could hang out in a novel, dear fellow writers, which one would you pick?

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And the best time for writing is…?

Let’s seeeEEEeee.

4am? 7 pm? Is it late in the evening? Could it be on Blue Moon Tuesdays?

Since we, writers/writer-parents have to change our writing routine pretty often depending on what the kids are up to, I went into research mode to find out if such a thing as THE Best Time to Write existed.

Early birds, night owls, happy badgers, drum roll. The winner is…

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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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