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? The lowdown on lockdown ?️

March 18, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

This was gonna be my top 3 tips for working from home if you're not used to it.Then Joe asked me to get him a chocolate orange from the kitchen and I had to add another tip (you'll have to watch this

That escalated fast…

March 17, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

Well, that escalated fast.Honestly, I've been thinking and mulling over and wondering what to write (and resisting the urge to make terrible jokes because too soon?).So today I'm going to share what

Small boy with ice cream all over his face

How Gluttony Could Derail Your Book

March 2, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

Image credit: Ross SokolovskiWatch the video here: Listen to the podcast here:Gluttonous writing makes miserable reading...It was a little like something from a horror movie: in the silence among

How I stopped drinking alcohol

March 1, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

Tuesday Boozeday!Thursday: almost the weekend so let's have a glass of wine!Friday night: pizza and beer!Saturday night: spurious excuse to celebrate something = prosecco!Sunday evening: dinner and wine

The future is a myth

February 27, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

"I'd love to start in May. But I've got so much on. Realistically, I'll be able to start in January 2021."Wait, what?This was a conversation I had a while ago with a lovely guy who wants to write a book.He's

Proud of Yourself? The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing a Book

February 25, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write Writing Skills
/ By Vicky Fraser

Listen to the podcast here: Why pride is a sin and a virtue…We’re told to be humble, to be quiet, to sit down and shut up. Everything we learn from the day we’re born urges us to be smaller, not

Commit no nuisance

February 20, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Vicky Fraser

On Facebook the other day, my sister-in-law posted a picture that made me snort with laughter.It's a splendid example of English scolding: "commit no nuisance".But it got me thinking about how things

On Finding Mudita

February 18, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Inner Dickhead Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Vicky Fraser

Image credit: KatieSzAs well as an Inner Dickhead, I also have an Inner Toddler.My Inner Toddler gives face, voice, and rage to my least-favourite emotion: envy.Here's an article about envy and

Are you a shenanigator?

February 6, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Vicky Fraser

Seth Godin calls it making a ruckus.Which I like.But I call it being a shenanigator.(Well, I do now, ever since my friend Jodie sent me a thing explaining that the word "shenanigator" means "one who

Recruit friends to help you

January 31, 2020
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Inner Dickhead Mindset
/ By Vicky Fraser

Habits are easier to keep when people are cheering you on, right?Take Spanish, for example.I've been learning Spanish on Duolingo for a few months now, and I'm pretty good about practising regularly.

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