• 2024 has been a slow literary year for me. After the time pressure I put myself under in 2022 and 2023 to complete my Belfast Ghosts trilogy, I [...]

  Motivation to finish my ghost horror novel first draft

  August 29, 2024
• Spring is around the corner, which is the perfect time for a physical – as well as mental – spring clean. I have been in poor health [...]

  March motivation – my readers keep me writing

  March 4, 2024
• This summer, aside from having 8 weeks off while school is out for the summer, we have been busy raising tortoiseshell and cabbage white [...]

  Believing in your own writing: the importance of self-confidence as an author

  July 2, 2023
• I’ve been writing professionally (defined here by a goal of publication) for 14 years. In that time, I have to say the art of sticking pen [...]

  Getting motivated to write when you aren’t feeling it

  February 21, 2023

• Do you want to know the first thing that people say when I tell them I’m a writer? “I hope you make lots of money”. Is that [...]

  Motivation to write when it’s not about the money

  May 17, 2022