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The Best Bit: Don’t Call Me Cupcake by Tara Sheets

5 October 2022 | I was in the mood for something sweet when this book popped up in my recommendations. I don’t even remember where I saw it, but something about the title had me adding this to my TBR without a second thought.

The last time I had writer’s block

28 September 2022 | In highschool, I was a prolific writer. It seemed like poems and stories would just fall out of me constantly. I didn’t carry a pen and notebook like other writers I knew of back then. Just that when I had the tools in front of me, words would simply flow.

There’s nothing routine about how I write

7 September 2022 | I don’t have a writing routine. I’m almost sad to admit this, as I think it would be lovely to have one. My personal process is very chaotic, and I envy writers who can sit down and bang out scenes like nobody’s business. Even trying the method imparted to every new writer (“draft first, edit later”) seems to yield little success.

As time goes by

27 July 2022 | It’s a heck of a thing to watch your parents get older. For many of my friends, they chart the passage of time by how fast their kids grow up. But for me, it’s my folks. They can be pretty dynamic people when they want to be — Dad with his hobby obsessions and Mum with her ever-evolving reflections on life and the world.

How the Wedding draft is going

29 June 2022 | Is it silly that I’ve started writing the second draft of “Wedding” by hand? I’m just so in love with my fountain pen and dip pens and ink at the moment that I just can’t help it.