by Lauren Carter | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Early this week, I finished the latest draft of a new novel. When I reached the end, after days and days (and days) of slow, plodding progress, I felt surprised. It was like thinking you’ve got a couple of hours left to drive then spotting the sign marking the...
by Hollay Ghadery | Mar 12, 2020 | Guest Posts, Process, Publications, Writers, Writing Life
I spent over a decade working on my book. “Working” may be the wrong word: I spent over a decade trying to make the book work. I only actually worked on it for the equivalent of a year during that time. The reason for this long, languishing creation period...
by Lauren Carter | Jan 16, 2020 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Process, Writing Life
These days, I’m working on the fourth draft of a strange, new novel. It is largely plot-driven so sometimes I wake in the night with an aggravating case of “what ifs.” What if this happened… Could it? Do I dare? Yes, I do! I get up, stumble to...
by Lauren Carter | Sep 19, 2019 | Books, Novel, Pets, Process, Writers, Writing Life
The cat is screaming his head off for his afternoon walk-on-the-harness so I’m going to keep this brief (did I mention that J. and i brought a whole tree into our house just to try to keep him happy as an indoor cat? Here’s a picture 🙂 ). People are starting to send...
by Lauren Carter | Sep 7, 2019 | Books, Novel, Process, Publications, Writing Life
Today is the first book birthday for This Has Nothing To Do With You. By which I mean: as of today, September 7th, my second novel is officially out in the world! You can walk into your favourite book store and (hopefully) find it on a shelf. If it isn’t there, you...
