Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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Tag Archives: writing goals

  • Last week I finally reached 40,865 words on novel wip #6 after one year of working on this manuscript. This draft will become Book 3 of my [...]

    Manuscript drafting: on reaching the 40k benchmark

    January 23, 2023
  • Happy New Year! 2023 is upon us and a fresh new year is a blank writing pad, or a blank first page in a Word document, to a writer. As I always [...]

    Writers write – stories are no good stuck in an author’s head

    January 8, 2023
  • About a decade ago, I was working in a secondary school in London and running a creative writing group for gifted and talented young people. The [...]

    Is talent or skills more important for writing novels?

    May 25, 2022
  • Happy New Year! I hope 2022 has gotten off to a great start for you and that, like me, you have remained covid-free. January began for me with a [...]

    Literary and life goals for 2022

    January 6, 2022
  • Hard to believe we have entered the roaring twenties again! It’s even harder not to enter the new decade without any aspirations. Sometimes [...]

    Happy New Year! Writing goals for 2020.

    January 3, 2020
  • Happy New Year’s Eve! As another decade closes, it’s time to reflect on more than simply a one year journey. Ten years ago I was [...]

    Celebrating Old Year’s Night – goodbye to 2019

    December 31, 2019
  • Summer is over, as is my 8 week holiday! I didn’t get much writing done over the break, as I was looking after our (Joseph Robert and my) 2 [...]

    A summary of my summer writing

    August 31, 2019
  • Can you believe it’s April already? The days are flying by so quickly. With a new baby along for the adventure, I have been cherishing [...]

    Maternity leave and writing goals

    April 2, 2018
  • Today marked the end of term at the secondary school where I work for the start of the summer holidays. It also means the start of my maternity [...]

    Writing goals and wrapping up the day job

    June 30, 2017
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