Work/Write/Life Balance.

Diary of Being a Writer; Month 65.

I recently came to the realisation that I needed to make some big changes in my life. This included restructuring the way I work. I got a brilliant new job. In order to start that new job, I needed to do some, not exactly retraining, but a number of refresher courses, in order to feel competent and capable in my new role.

This has meant that once again, writing has had to take a back seat.

But not completely.

I have still managed to do some scribbling. I have created a plan for my Curious Bookshop. I have written a few thousand words of it and even let someone else look at the first thousand or so. The feedback was positive, while understanding that it was a clunky draft, it is heading in the right direction.

As for Dawn 2, I have had a full plot outline written for some time, so I took moments from that and used them as writing exercises. I chose a scene and wrote it in isolation. It is very freeing and enjoyable. I don’t know how much will end up in the finished book, but it seems like a useful way to keep in touch with the plot, to reconnect with the work and just have some good, clean, writing fun.

As for the refresher courses, those of you who have been here before know I love learning and if the presenters and…