The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty This episode is about something I’ve done on my blog for the past couple of years that I thought would be applicable to those of us who like to assess project progression and on the basis of those successes or failures (or somewhere in between) decide where to head…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Nineteen In this episode, I am joined by Fiona Wood, author of young adult novels, Six Impossible Things, Wildlife and Cloudwish. She has worked as a television scriptwriter and is an ambassador for The Stella Prize Schools Program. You can find her on her website and Twitter. Books Mentioned The…
This is just a quick post to say that the Small Press Network Independent Publishing Conference is fast approaching. It’s a terrific event over four days, catering to different types of experience and interests. It’s my pleasure to say that I’ll be doing the keynote on the Fundamentals Day (Saturday 12th November). If you can…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Eighteen My guest is Darrell Pitt, author of A Toaster on Mars and the Jack Mason Adventures, a series of five novels including The Firebird Mystery, which was a Notable book in the 2015 CBCA awards. He was the first self-published author for Text Publishing to sign on, and it was the…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Seventeen I know introverts working in the arts can struggle with self-confidence. How do we cultivate it within ourselves when so much of what we do is based on feedback, gatekeepers, stakeholders, audiences and more? It can be tricky. Books Mentioned Quiet by Susan Cain. (She also has the Quiet Revolution…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Sixteen This week, I dig a little deeper on one of the tips I gave on Episode 5, ‘6 Pieces of Advice for Beginner Writers‘, and that piece of advice is “own the time”. How do I do it when I have lots happening at once? And when does the…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Fifteen The ‘Three Fictional Characters’ meme lives on! (At least for a bit longer in this episode.) Book and Topics Discussed Crying in the Car (Sale price $12 – I’m running low on copies, just quietly…) Below are my three fictional characters. Don’t know who they are? Want to know why…
It’s October?! How did that happen already? November is when I typically run My Creative Process and this year is no different. So it’s my pleasure to say that registrations for next month are open! A condensed version of the course outline can be found below. Please note that the course has been altered slightly:…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Fourteen When I wrote this post, I was in the middle of my 20K by 20 June challenge – a target I set myself in order to finish off my young adult novel, which I was able to do. It did pretty well at the time in terms of page…
