I love writing, I do, but some days, for whatever reason, I just don’t want to. Some days the idea of writing is hard, I don’t fancy it. Can’t bring myself to the keyboard, especially if there’s a niggly plot hole I’m working on, or if the story isn’t going how I’d like. Those
Writing podcasts, for me, are the way to write when I’m not writing. Let me explain a little, because I can see your brow creasing up in confusion at that sentence. So, for me, and I know it might not be the same for you, but when I have a writing project on the
I got a comment on one of my Instagram posts the other day, lovely writer friend @thisbusybooklife posted that she hadn’t written in a while and needed to back to editing her first draft. ‘How do you get over the fear of getting started?’ she asked, ‘I know different people have different methods …but just
Creating cinemagraphs for Instagram is super easy. I use a few apps, but in this post, I’m focusing on the app Webler (affiliate link) because it’s so simple to use and has the best effects. But before we get into how to make the cinemagraphs, let’s firstly look at if they’re worth it. I love
Remember my last post, where I told you about the book I’m writing and how I was behaving like my main character who is an influencer and it was getting me all kinds of amazing results on Instagram? Well since I wrote that, I kind of stopped behaving like my main character. The day job
I’m working on a book where one of my main characters is an ‘Influencer,’ she makes a load of money from social media, she vlogs, blogs and is an Instagram boss and my research has led me to all kinds of places. ‘But this is a post about Instagram pictures!’ I hear you shout, ‘What’s
Hello 2019! I realise I’m a bit late with this blog post to be wishing you that, but I took an unintentional break from the internet and social media in general over the holidays and I felt so much better for it. I played with the kids, went for long walks, visited friends, watched films,
One of the nicest features about Facebook is how it notifies you when it’s someone’s birthday. ‘Wish them a Happy Birthday,’ it encourages and mostly, people do. Resulting in a large amount of well wishes to the person who’s birthday it is, and when it happens to me, I LOVE IT. I thought there must
The first ghost story I remember hearing was at a Halloween party. I was about seven or eight years old, and a wimpy little kid. I was scrawny and suffering with undiagnosed asthma at the time and the party was held in the church hall. My mother took me up to the church, but couldn’t
