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Posts tagged 'twenty years later'

Six months in and it’s time for some commitment

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Trumpet fanfare please: it’s my sixth month blogging anniversary. I know most people only make a fuss when they’ve been blogging for a year, but this is a big deal to me because six months was the amount of time I was going to do it before deciding whether to continue. On a dark evening in [...]

No longer my baby

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I’m not very well at the moment, and so I am trying hard to settle down to something that will make me feel better. Oddly, after avoiding this blog for the longest time since I started it, I find myself coming here to talk to you. And to myself. I’m confused. And scared. And panicking, [...]

Five challenges faced by an adolescent blog

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Whether you believe in synchronicity or not, a hell of a lot of it seems to be happening to me online at the moment. The latest manifestation is discovering a competition over at Bloggity (a great site all about demystifying blogging) which is all about getting help for the challenges currently faced by us bloggers. [...]

Neutering my narrator

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

I got an email this morning from one of my favourite people online. Her words were heartfelt and kind, yet contained something hard for me to deal with (especially having had only one cup of tea). It’s been on my mind ever since, and I just had to write out my thoughts, otherwise nothing would [...]

Finished.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It’s finished. Even as I type that, I don’t believe it. Of course, as many writers say, a book is never truly finished. I’m sure that if I left it alone for a few months and came back to it, I would find something else to edit, some tweak to make. But, as Isobel says, [...]