Sitting at the keyboard and making the tippy tappy noises. — Last month I was talking about getting back into writing after a break and how taking some of my writing time to just potter and ponder was invaluable, and it was. I love the ideas I came up with. Now it is time to get back to the discipline of…

Sometimes you need to take the pressure off. — Until yesterday, I was dreading writing this blog. Sure, I have previously had times where I have had to admit to not having written for various reasons, all valid. Most recently, it was because I was editing and moving house. Then those two things were done. Boxes all unpacked. Bloody…

In which I dream of a day that writing is the priority. — So where were we? That’s right, I was moving house. And finishing up my most recent edits and I managed to do both, just. My mental and physical health have taken a little bit of a beating from it all, but I got through it. I have even sent Bloody…

We sold the house; I get some time to write/edit. — Brilliant news,the house is sold, and I had some time to edit my book. Getting both done was an immense weight off of my shoulders. The feelings of overwhelming stress and the constant worry about houses, opens, settlement dates, bridging loans, and the auction are over. …

Or how to exhaust yourself and start yelling at your family. — So my life has all been about the house, or rather houses, lately. The good news is we found a bigger, cheaper house in the nearby town of Gawler. The bad news, to secure the loan we had to get our house on the market immediately. Our plan to take…

My agent still likes my book, mostly. — I have a cold. A minor one, not the spicey cough but enough to make talking to people all day tough so I have taken the day off of work and now I find myself wanting to do something productive, to get some writing done but really I should be…

Or rather I am very busy getting ready to move house instead. I feel like I should call this Diary of a House Hunter this week because that is what I have been doing. Looking for a new home and getting the current one presentable to sell. There has been…

I finished the latest edits. Now we wait for the next ones. — We just had a long weekend, so we sent my step kids to their grandparents and I had the time and space to finish my edit. It was hard to know when to stop. In the end, I stopped after listening to a horrendous computer generated voice reading the whole…

Still not quite there yet, folks. — Okay, so maybe we should just admit this has turned into a monthly blog rather than a weekly one. Between work and the kids bringing home every cold going around (although not the spicy cough again, yet) and really wanting to spend any spare energy or time I have on…