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5 Life Changing Books Every Writer Needs to Read Today

Kylie Fennell

I love being a writer. It is all I have ever wanted to do, but doing it for a living and balancing it among other work and life priorities can be downright hard. Whenever I do need a boost, inspiration, motivation or writing tips I turn to a few key books – here are what I think are the top books every writer needs to read.

1. Living as a Creative – Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m a scaredy-cat by nature. Many writers I have come across are. For me, fear goes along with my overly active imagination that always asks ‘what if?’.

It’s great for fiction writing but not so good for getting over those fears of ‘am I really any good at this?’, ‘should I just give up?’, and any version of the ‘I’m a fraud’ factor many of us are regularly afflicted by. 

What I love about Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” is that it deals with all of these fears and more. Gilbert encourages the writer to accept fear and invite it along on your journey, but never to let it in the “driving seat”. Beautifully written and packed with useful heart-felt advice on how to live a creative life.

2. Making Money as a Writer – How to be a Writer, John Birmingham

One of the most quoted lines from this book is ‘Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can’t eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.’ It is the perfect summary of the theme of Birmingham’s book.

If you’ve ever wanted to make money from writing, be it as a freelancer, a features writer or author, then this is the book for you.

Notice though I didn’t say it was for poets…Birmingham doesn’t have any useful advice for poets, but he does have a wicked sense of humour – he really knows his sh…stuff.

There’s plenty of expert tips and laughs along the way starting with the tongue in cheek full title: How to Be a Writer: Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft.  

Topics covered include ‘How to slay writer’s block’, ‘What the hell is workflow?’, ‘How to write 10,000 words in a day’ and ‘The best apps for writers’. Hard-core, real-world practical advice. Read it if you dare!

3. Mastering Language –On Writing, Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a guide to mastering language, written by the master himself.

Helpful advice, tips and instruction on using language is threaded among personal anecdotes and memoir.

King uses his life and writing experience, as well as examples from his own novels, to illustrate technical writing points. He shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. If you’re a Stephen King fan you will get a serious kick out of this. Even if you’re not – and I don’t read much of his stuff (I told you I’m a scaredy cat) – you will still find it incredibly helpful.

For one, I share King’s hate for passive voice. If you catch me doing it feel free to tag me with a narky tweet. Scratch that. For all I know I’ve dropped a few clangers in this post. 

He also declares war on adverbs, which has led me to revisit my own work and weed out the little buggers but also live in perpetual fear of them. So I’d say King’s ‘On Writing’ mission is accomplished in terms of improving my writing.

4. Putting Yourself Out There – What to Do When it’s Your Turn (and it’s Always Your Turn), Seth Godin

I have mentioned this book more than once in my blog posts, for several reasons.

Firstly, I have a massive writing and marketing crush on Seth Godin. Love your guts mate!

Secondly, this book is freakin’ awesome.

What to Do When it’s Your Turn (and it’s Always Your Turn is an urgent call to action to writers and other creative types to stop waiting ‘for their turn’ and to send their art out to the world.

He goes further, saying we owe it to the world to share our craft, whether the world likes it or not. It’s not the world’s job to love us, it’s our job to just put ourselves and our art out there – embracing all the challenges along the way.

I love how Godin simultaneously inspires and gives the reader the kick up the butt they need while also delivering necessary reality checks.

5. Understanding Story – Steering The Craft, Ursula Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin has created this deceptively simple guide focusing on the craft of story and narrative.

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story covers the main components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view.

Le Guin combines illustrative examples with her own witty commentary, as well as exercises. She also includes advice on working in writing groups.

These are just some of the books I have loved and found incredibly valuable for improving my writing.

What books for writers do you recommend?

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5 Tips For Writers to Boost Creativity

Kylie Fennell

Creativity has many definitions but when it comes to writing it often refers to the innovative use of the imagination or original ideas to create something.

Whenever we write we’re creating something, but our level of innovation may feel like another matter.

Some days we feel the muse with us, but on other days, weeks and months even, we remain in pursuit of “creativity”.

On our worst days, we’re very good at admonishing ourselves for our lack of creativity and wonder if it will ever arrive or return to us.

The good news is that you can stop wondering. There are lots of things we can do to boost our creativity.

Creativity: Is it Innate or Acquired?

Creativity has been labeled as something innate, but the truth is, creativity is actually a skill that can be enhanced by challenging yourself to go beyond your capabilities.

Here are some techniques you can use to foster your creativity.

1. Restrict yourself

Have you read about Dr Seuss and how Green Eggs & Ham came about? This famous story is said to have been written after Dr Seuss accepted a bet that he couldn’t produce a story using less than 50 words. Of course he proved it was possible with the wildly successful Green Eggs & Ham.

You can mimic Dr Seuss’ success by placing restrictions on yourself. For instance, entering writing competitions with set themes or prompts can help focus your writing and force you to be creative.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention.

2. Re-conceptualise any problems

Attributed to Einstein is a saying that if he had an hour to solve a problem, he would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and leave the remaining 5 minutes to think about solutions.  

Creative people often reconceptualise problems a couple of times before they start a creative task.

It is better to rethink any problems from different perspectives instead of being fixed on one solution or the end goal.

3. Monotask

It has been shown that people are terrible at creating a new work when they are preoccupied with a lot of other things. This scenario happens when you are attempting to multitask. It is best to not interrupt yourself as you start working on your writing projects.

Even if you only have 5 or 15 minutes to write at a time, for that short period be focused on the writing and nothing else.

If ideas come to you when you are doing something else – and they often do – take down notes in an app, your phone or jot it down on paper.

In fact, when you’re really stuck, it can help to do something completely mundane such as housework, or take a walk or a shower to clear your head. Stepping away from the problem or keyboard for a moment can really increase creativity.

4. Stay Positive

Our best creations often happen when we are in a strong positive mood. Negative moods can inhibit creativity, while the feeling of being happy can fuel our creative minds. Trying to remain positive about your project on the worst days can be challenging, but is necessary to keep moving forward to foster your creativity. Just keep flexing your writing muscle and remind yourself that any words you write are a step closer to your end goal, and better writing days will come.

5. Use counterfactual thinking

Counterfactual thinking or the state of asking yourself the question of “What might have been?” is found to increase your creativity. You can try to take events that have happened in the past (to your characters for example) and re-imagine them in different circumstances. For example, if you are trying to solve a problem, try adding “what if” questions to the elements that could have an effect on the outcome.

As you can see creativity is something you can definitely boost and nurture with a few simple techniques. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get creative.

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How to Structure a Novel

Kylie Fennell

I love reading novels, the more fantastical the better. There’s nothing like becoming completely immersed in another world and its characters.

As a writer though, I know this isn’t as easy to achieve as it sounds.

Key to drawing readers into a novel is its structure.

How do you create a good novel structure?

To come up with a good novel structure, you need to establish your trigger points.  

These are the turning points, the major moments that shape your story. They are events that will deeply affect the behaviour and attitude of the main character, and should pique your reader’s interest and urge them to read more.

Generally speaking, each novel should contain the following turning points:

  1. The hook – Begin your story with a strong hook, a line, a question, an event, which immediately sets the scene for the novel and the protagonist’s current situation, and is interesting enough to convince the reader to keep going.
  2. The inciting event – This is the start of the conflict, the change in the reality, or what is different about the day you have started your book. The stakes need to be high for the main protagonist in the first chapter.
  3. Progress – This is where ‘the choice’ is made which will change the course of the main character’s life, and they make progress towards their goal or new path.
  4. The setbacks – A great story has more than one twist. At best, it needs at least three significant setbacks, which will keep the main character swimming in conflict throughout the novel.
  5. The midpoint – this is often in the form of a twist or when everything seems to go wrong or threaten the protagonist. This may involve a moment of character for the main character.
  6. The final confrontation – The part which the whole story leads to, the point where the main character resolves their conflict or there is some resolution of another kind. This is followed by a wrap-up or aftermath of the situation.

Knowing what the trigger points are in your novel will help you structure a novel that urges the reader to keep going.

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How to Stay Motivated When Writing a Novel

Kylie Fennell

Passion is what drives many of us to undertake the Herculean task of writing a novel. However, even the most passionate writers suffer from lack of the motivation from time to time.

Motivation is important no matter what you do. In order to stay motivated, writers need to have techniques and tools to help them finish their novel.

Tips for Staying Motivated

I know how hard it is to summon motivation once you suffer from writer’s block or lack self belief in your writing. It’s a common experience for many of us, as we go through that cycle of one day marveling at our writing and the next wondering ‘who wrote this rot?’.

Below are some tips that work for me. They will help you find the drive to complete your novel and get through the worst days. Keep in mind that not every technique will work for every writer. Staying motivated is a continuous process and finding the right method is a case of trial and error.

  1. Create a Writing Routine

You should keep a writing schedule and stick to it. Even if you are not in the mood to write, just do it anyway. You should set yourself small goals that are achievable.

If you can commit to writing a single page or a minimum of 500 words daily. Before you know it, you will be halfway through your novel.

Writing daily may not work for you, but setting aside a regular time each week is important to stay on track and maintain momentum.

  1. Get Rid of All Distractions

There are many distractions around you. Before you start writing, put your phone on silent, and turn off email notifications. Look for a place where you can focus on writing and nothing else. If you have limited time, consider writing in a short burst or snatches of time throughout the day.

  1. Set a Reward for Yourself

If you have completed your goal for the day, don’t forget to reward yourself. The reward doesn’t need to be big. The reward may be a slice of cake, or watching an episode of your favourite TV show, whatever works for you.

  1. Do Something Else

When you are struggling to find the motivation to write, do something else. There are days when you can’t find the words no matter how hard you try. When you find yourself in that position, find something else to do aside from writing.

You can go for a run around the block or go for a walk. Stepping away from the computer even for 5 minutes can work wonders. Some of the best ideas come when you are doing something not related to writing. Some people (not me I have to admit) report getting great ideas while doing housework.

  1. Be a Continuous Learner

There is always room for improvement no matter how much you have written. Learning about your craft should be a positive thing and an important part of your process for completing your novel. You should read other novels by different authors, and across loads of genres, as well as attend author events and festivals. Talk to other writers and learn how they maintain their motivation while writing. Look for a like-minded writers group or online community that will keep you connected to the process and provide support and motivation when you most need it.     

And when all else fails…just write. Write anything but just write. The more you flex that writing muscle the easier it becomes over time. So what are you waiting for? Stop reading this and get to it.

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Why You Don’t Need a ‘Pitch’ to Successfully Pitch

Kylie Fennell

I’m a writer. I’ve been writing for a living for more years than I care to remember.

At risk of sounding up myself, I aint too shabby when it comes to putting a few words together.

I can be pretty damn persuasive as well, when I want to be.

There’s one caveat though.

I may be the cat’s meow (at least that’s what I like to think on a good day) when it comes to putting together compelling messages, pitches, stories, articles, ads…pretty much anything really, as long as it’s in the written form.

But when it comes to delivering the same type of content verbally, it quickly goes pear-shaped.

Anyone who knows me, will say I have no problem talking. They’ll probably say I can talk the leg off a chair. I reckon they’ll say I’ll go up and talk to anyone – that I’m the classic extrovert.

There is definitely some truth in that. Once I’m in my comfort zone, I can, and will, chat to anybody, but initially approaching and speaking to a stranger doesn’t come so easily.

I’ll happily speak to the person next to me at the bus stop, the usher at the theatre, other clients at the hairdresser, on one condition – that I’m speaking about things I’m extremely confident about, strongly believe in, or if it’s just classic small talk.

Ask me though to pitch something important to someone verbally, whether it’s a novel or a business idea, I become crippled with verbal diarrhoea, or say nothing at all.

For me, it all comes down to having confidence in what I’m speaking about.

Believing in your writing or idea is one thing – something we’ll talk about another day – but until you can have that confidence, there’s an easy tool that will help you ‘fake it until you make it’, as they say.

Creating A Killer Pitch

I was a mess, the first time I pitched my novel to a publisher.

I’d gone to extreme effort to polish a few paragraphs with an awesome hook, and it sounded pretty darn good…on paper.

I realised too late that the pitch didn’t sound so great when read aloud. It sounded like I was reading from a script, and that’s exactly what I did. I read from the piece of paper because I was comfortable with what I’d written.

It was a brilliant lesson and reminder that I needed to work on my elevator pitch, specifically to be delivered verbally.

But where would I start?

The answer lay in all of the years of media training I had delivered to businesses and executives over the years.

 I didn’t need a ‘pitch’. I needed key messages.

The Power of Key Messages

The problem with writing a pitch and then memorising it word-for-word, is that when you go to say it, it is likely to sound like a script.

In real life we don’t speak the same way that sentences are put together on paper.

And when we do try to do that, we tend to sound unnatural or robotic.

We concentrate so much on delivering the exact words, that we lose all of the intonation and natural expression we normally use when we speak – all of the things that help to engage and keep other people interested.

The way to get around this, and take it a heck of a lot easier on yourself, is to develop key messages that you can use a guide – not a script.

Key messages are the takeaways you want your target audience to hear and remember – whether that audience is an agent, publisher, potential client, or a stranger at the shops.

Key messages – How To

  1. You want to develop three key messages based on the core themes or ideas you want to put across when pitching.
    • Why three? Three is an easy number to remember and will help keep you focused, and on point.
  2. To develop your key messages, ask yourself what are the three most important things you need to get across about the topic, novel or idea you are pitching.
  3. Write down these things and package them up into sentences.
  4. Each key message should consist of 1-2 sentences – the shorter the better – and should capture the things you think will appeal to the audience the most.
  5. Once you have written out your key messages, go through and highlight or underline keywords or phrases that represent the most critical themes or ideas you want to convey.

How To Use Your Key Messages to Pitch

The thing that stands key messages apart from a written pitch, is that they give you the freedom to adapt them as needed, at the time of use.

Key messages don’t need to be used word-for-word or remembered off-by-heart – you just want to focus on remembering the general gist of each message and the keywords or phrases you identified as most important.

Initially commit the key messages to memory, but then practise saying them out loud a few times and you will notice that you may start changing up your words, or tweaking them each time. Keep doing this until you have something that feels natural to say, and then remember it and practise it more.

But it doesn’t end there.

The beauty of key messages is that they can be tweaked depending on your audience, or even how you’re feeling on the day. They may also evolve over time.

You will most likely use slightly different language when speaking to someone at a BBQ than you would speaking to a senior executive.

Key messages enables you to ‘go off script’ without losing track of what you were trying to say and ensures you still convey the most important parts.

You’re also likely to sound more authentic, relaxed and engaging.

Trust me, I’ve done it myself and it really works.

Remember you’re not delivering a speech, your starting a conversation.

Bonus tip!

Once you nail your key messages, here’s your next challenge. Why not try and distil the three messages into one concise statement – you can call it your tagline or slogan if you like – that captures the core essence of what you’re trying to say.

And then, edit it until it is 140 characters or less – now you have an awesome little sound bite that’s made for Twitter!!

So what are you waiting for? Start working on your key messages and you’ll be pitching like a pro before you know it.

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Stop Waiting for the Muse to Arrive – Just Write

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‘My writing has just stalled completely. I haven’t written anything for weeks.’

I was sitting with a lovely writer, on our lunch break from a writing workshop, listening to how she didn’t know what to write next, so she’d stopped writing.

She was devastated, because she was so attached to the story and its characters, but the ‘muse’ had left her.

I nodded my head knowingly. All of us writers have been there at one time or another.

I too have sat there, paralysed at my keyboard, waiting for that temperamental little minx of a muse to appear and shower me in magical creative fairy dust. And guess what? She never showed.

The Perfect Writing Conditions Don’t Exist

I had bad news for my new writer friend. If she persisted on her current path, the Muse wasn’t going to show up for her either.

You see, many of us writers like to think that we can only channel our creativity under the exact right conditions.

And given those conditions, the Muse will appear.

Those conditions may rely on being in the exact right mood and place. Having a beautifully designed workspace. It being the right time of day. Not being too tired. Having a big stint of time to sit down and write, completely undisturbed. And possible even having the astrological planets perfectly aligned. The thing is though, I’m yet to come across any writer whose life creates these perfect conditions for them on a consistent basis, or even at all.

I’ve used every excuse under the sun for why I couldn’t finish my book. In fact I used them for the best part of 10 years.

‘I write for a living, so I have no creativity or energy left each day.’  That was my favourite one.

Excuses are merely that. They are excuses. And you have to have call them out for the BS they are.

Life will inevitably get in the way of your writing. Deal with it, and recognise understand that it isn’t the reason why the Muse won’t appear.

The Muse Doesn’t Appear on Command

Even those of us, that accept that the perfect writing conditions don’t exist, have been guilty on occasion of tapping our fingers impatiently at our desk, waiting for a burst of creativity to appear.

Guess what though. The Muse doesn’t appear on command either.

Merely sitting at your keyboard, isn’t enough to signal to the Muse that you’re ready for her.

It’s a good start, because that’s where she’ll be looking for you, but it’s not enough.

Prove You’re Serious

The Muse needs to know you’re serious about your writing.

She’s not going to waste her time and magic on someone who isn’t prepared to do the hard yards.

How do you prove you’re serious?

You show up and you just write.

As simplistic as it sounds, you just have to sit at that keyboard, or notepad, and write your way through it.

The words may be rubbish, incoherent even, but you have to give the Muse something to work with.

Write whatever comes to you.

The great thing about writing is that the more you do it, the better you get at it.

The more you make yourself available to the Muse, the more responsive she is.

And the best part about writing is, that it doesn’t have to be perfect the first time.

Start with any words. You can change them later. Just get words onto a screen, or a page.

One word, after another, until you have a sentence. One sentence after another, until you have a page. You get the picture.

While I’d love to say that writing is all about being creative, the big ugly truth is that it’s not. More often than not, it’s about showing up day, after day, even when you don’t feel like it, and writing, writing, writing.

So stop waiting for the Muse, write for her.

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Show. Don’t Tell.

Kylie Fennell

Every writer has heard at some stage the phrase “show don’t tell”.

At first I was a little puzzled by what exactly this meant.

As a former journalist I was used to writing straight news stories where you needed to ‘tell’ without your own embellishments or clues.

Over time though, I’ve found it a little easier.

Here are some great tips on how to ‘tell’ less.

My top 15 excuses for not finishing my novel yet

Kylie Fennell

This week a friend of mine told me his novel will be finished by the end of the year.

He has a full-time job and three kids, but he has been super disciplined and through sheer determination and hard work…he will have finished.
I’m really proud of him but…it just reminded me how terribly far I have to go.
I have been analysing all the reasons why I still haven’t finished.
It’s been probably 7 years since I started my two novels.
Each of them is around 100,000 words – so I guess I should congratulate myself for getting that far – and now I am at the revising stage.
The revising stage is WAY before the editing stage.
It’s when you go back over things you wrote, maybe 7 years ago, and say “what was I thinking, that is complete crap!” or “maybe I should just completely change that character or plot line”…great idea, I’ll just go back to the start again.
To be honest, I’m not really sure why I have been dragging it out this long, but after some analysis I can tell you here are my top excuses.
1. I hate the revising stage
2. I really should be working instead
3. Oooo Dr Phil/Gogglebox/Masterchef is on the TV
4. I really should be playing lego with my son
5. It’s too late tonight – I’m tired
6. It’s too early to get up – I’m tired.
7. I’m too busy trying to get my business up and running
8. I might just have a ‘quick’ look at Pinterest
9. My writing is crap
10. Maybe I should do some more research
11. I need to clean the house
12. I’ll just take a little break for lunch
13. ‘You have mail’ pop-up
14. I’ll do it tomorrow
And here’s my favourite one.
15. I need to write my blog post (about why I’m not writing) first.
Anyway, I’ve got to run, as I am definitely going to work on the book today…hey look a bright shiny object!
So what are your favourite excuses?
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***Update. The first three novels are completed and just in various stages of editing. Just need a publisher now : ) And keep on writing, right ***

Creating As Your Purpose

Kylie Fennell
It’s taken nearly 40 years but I’ve finally figured out what I am. 
 
When I say ‘what’ I mean how to define what I do and love. I’m a Creator.
Everything I have done and got so much joy of during my life is about creating. 

Creating words, content, stories, strategies, food, businesses, ideas, events, dinner parties…it’s everything I enjoy and I’m good at. Suddenly my crazy looking life where I jump from creating one thing to the next and back again all in within 5 minutes, makes so much sense to me.
 
Sure it’s another label like being a mum or a business woman or a marketer or even a writer but Creator means so much more to me, especially after reading Seth Godin’s book ‘What to do When it’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your turn)’.
 
I talked about Seth’s book recently in my business blog and how it inspired me to think of my marketing as creating but to the point here it speaks to my writing.
 
Seth is a marketing genius and inspirational author known for his incredibly popular blog and books such as Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable.
 
In What to do When it’s Your Turn he focuses on the concept of creating new and inspiring ideas. That creators are left with no choice but to put themselves out there in a big way. They need to embrace the fear and exhilaration that success but also possible failure can bring.
 
Creators are driven by the need to create and are utterly miserable when they don’t get to do it.
 
The most pertinent advice he gives is that you may put your blood, sweat and tears into your creation and when you’re finally ready to introduce it to the world you have almost a sense of entitlement that it must be your turn, that your hard work must be rewarded. That you’re owed something. 
 
In fact it’s entirely the opposite. The world owes us Creators nothing.  Forgiving our audience for not feeling grateful and that they owe us gives us the freedom to create for the sake of creating – for us we know no other truth.
 
We owe it to the world to put our creations out there. We’re the Creators and we owe it to the Analysts, the Fixers, the Nurturers, the Thinkers and everyone else, to create for them. It’s our job. It’s who we are. It’s our entire being. 
 
Brutal advice from Seth and scary for a writer who is still slaving away on her first novels, but I can’t help but feel he’s right.
As he says, it is always our turn to put our creations out there. To have bad ideas. To let them marinate to become good ideas. He says that ultimately the person who fails the most will win because the person who gave up at the first hurdle can never win.
The sobering truth is that there are no guarantees but while you’re still creating you are still in the game and you have to be in it to win it.
Care enough to fail. Accept that this might or might not work. And get on with it and create!And thank you Seth for sharing the ugly and beautiful truth of creating.

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And the prize goes to…first readers

Kylie Fennell
“I have homework.” My son greeted me outside his classroom yesterday. No “Hello mum”, just “I have homework”.
Sounds about right? Well, yes and no.
My son is four-years-old. He started school this week – a very big milestone for our household.
The prospect of trying to get Master Four to sit still for more than a nanosecond and focus on homework made me shudder.
Did I mention he is four?
Anyway, my horror subsided when he pointed out that his homework was to read his ‘book’.
Master Four proudly held up said book; a stapled four-page booklet with coloured in pictures and accompanying words that he had carefully traced.
The book went like this:
“I am a boy. I am a girl. I am a dog. I am a snake.”
Hey not exactly Man Booker Prize material, but it’s pretty darn cool when your son reads to you with a level of enthusiasm and pride that I immediately matched.
It reminded me of just how truly magical reading is and why I want to write.
On days like this when I’m juggling school drop-offs and pick-ups, my “day job”, updating blog posts, organising lunches and dinners, and everything else that pops up in between, the last thing I feel like doing is sitting down to write or edit.
Or more accurately, I might want to, but my brain is so fried that the words just don’t seem to come together.
On days like this, coming up with “I am a boy. I am a girl. I am a dog. I am a snake” would be something worth celebrating.
Fortunately, every day isn’t like this. There are magic moments when you realise your son is ‘reading’ for the first time.
I want more of those moments. I want to create moments of magic for others when they read my books.
So while today my fingers are so heavy with fatigue they threaten to collapse on the keyboard, tomorrow the magic will be back.
In the meantime I’ll just have to settle for:  “I am a mother. I am a wife. I am a businesswoman. AND. I am a writer.”
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