This last week, after I managed to catch the twenty-four hour bug and then do away with it, I did something interesting. Well, perhaps not interesting to everyone, but it was certainly interesting to me. I registered a DBA sole-proprietor company. Tarney Brae Creative Endeavours (yes, it is spelled with a “u”) is official! All […]
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Speaker of Words Announcement: Cover Reveal!
This week, I thought abut writing on travelling (as I’ve done some recently) or the art of video editing and scripting (also on my docket) or any number of things. But, I decided I would much rather focus on my cover for Speaker of Words. I hired the fabulous Vanessa from NightOwl Freelance to do […]
Battling the Sedentary Writer Life
Writing is one of those jobs that requires spending a good deal of time alone, either scrawling out words in a notebook or typing at a computer or typewriter. Usually, this means that you are sitting at a desk for long periods of time. As far as maintaining a healthy life-balance goes, this can be […]
Making a Few Changes
As I’ve settled in to my life as a full-time writer and entrepreneur-type, I have also started figuring out what works best for me as far as producing content goes. I have started doing YouTube videos twice a week (need to film this week’s Wednesday Reads) and am doing social media every day (excepting Sundays) […]
The List
Ever since getting back from Edinburgh, I have been settling into life as a writer. I realised, mentally, that I would basically be starting a company and acting as the entrepreneur (entreprewriter?). What I didn’t quite realise was all of the things that go into that. First off, there’s marketing. That is more than just […]
Planning
Okay, yeah, that title is a little bit scary for me. I’m a dedicated pantser and when writing, planning doesn’t really exist. However! This planning has little to do with writing and a lot to do with my writing career. Basically, I’ve spent the last two days sorting through my administrative duties and planning out […]
Settling In
The move from Edinburgh was really tough. First, it was dealing with the packing of the suitcases, getting rid of things that wouldn’t fit/weren’t necessary here in the States, as well as cleaning the flat to the satisfaction of my letting agency (that’s a whole different story), getting to the hotel, sleeping not at all, […]
The Little Things
I’ve officially become a writer. So I should be hopping out of my bed and prancing over to my computer to go put words down, right? Wrong. I am still getting around 2K words down per day, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to just wander over to my computer and start writing. I […]