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Never has pain felt so exquisite

July 27, 2020
/ Author Blog Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

I reached up to the bar, lifted my feet up and off, lowered myself to the ground– and did my little happy Snoopy dance.128 days ago, I got off a trapeze with no idea as to when I'd be able to get

Daffodils aren’t supposed to be anxious

July 7, 2020
/ Author Blog Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

"I'm worried about the daffodils!" I blurted.Joe stared at me. "Um. What?""The daffodils!" I wailed.Anxiety is a funny thing. It manifests in bizarre ways. Like a couple of years ago, when I

Choking the onions

July 6, 2020
/ Author Blog Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

The onions are choking.They've been choking for 3 weeks now and all I've done is feel guilty as I walk past.Until yesterday morning."I'll just weed the first row," I said to myself. "It'll only

The 67,000 mile-an-hour Book

June 16, 2020
/ Author Blog Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

Don't have time to write a book? Read on...We're hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. And the Earth is spinning at around 1,000 miles per hour. (Sometimes I spin around my office at

This is your brain ? on knowledge

May 24, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Inner Dickhead Marketing Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

The more I learn about anything, the more I realise I don't know much at all.Learning is bizarre because our brains get everything barse-ackwards.When we know nothing at all about a subject, and we

Why do I always procrastinate?

May 18, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Inner Dickhead Marketing Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

Are we asking the right questions?I don't always ask good questions. I ask obvious ones.Like, "Why do I always procrastinate?"When I ask myself a question like that, my brain comes up with answers like:Because

?Do you have a reader magnet? ?

April 22, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Preparing To Write Self-publishing Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

Your book is just the beginning...It's not enough to have a book out there (although that is AWESOME obviously) – it needs to work for you.Which means it needs to bring a steady stream of highly qualified

A Nice Cup of Tea

April 21, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Preparing To Write Self-publishing Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

George Orwell's Essay on TeaI'm a huge fan of George Orwell. Not just his novels; his essays, too.This is one of my favourites, and on this National Tea Day in the UK, I think it's time you read it,

Forward to normal

April 19, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Inner Dickhead Marketing Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Harriet Randall

'We can't go back. We can never go back!''I know! And I keep hearing people say it!'^^This was a snippet from a conversation my good friend Yinka and I had the other day.How many times have you heard

Beaker is in da houzzzzzzzzzz

April 16, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Preparing To Write Publishing Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

Beaker is in da houuuuuuuzzzzzzIt's happened.He's cracked.Well, actually, I cracked after being badgered for more than a week.Joe has almost totally morphed into Beaker from the Muppets with the addition

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