I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t really know how friendship works. Growing up, I was always the third, fifth, seventh wheel of friendship groups. I think I had opportunities to have closer friendships than I did, but I never managed to capitalise on them. I never knew …
Month: August 2018
The Other Thing About Agent Applications…
The shopping bags are too heavy. I’ve overestimated, again, how much I can carry. I didn’t think my list for this week was even that long, but either I bought extra things or I just didn’t think about how heavy everything I was buying was. The first bit of the …
Cycles
There’s a week in the month – you know the one I mean – where it feels like exhaustion is my middle name. It’s not always been like this but these past years I drag myself through this week wanting to scream. I only just got up! Why am I …
Depression, Bad Days, and the Dangers of Absolutism
At the height of my depression, I didn’t really have bad days, because everything was so awful that I could hardly compare each day to the one before. They were the same, neither better nor worse than one another. The more I recovered – slowly, over a decade – the …
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Road to Getting Published: Applying to Literary Agencies
So you wrote a novel. You’re pretty happy with the manuscript as it stands, and the next step is to find someone to publish it. But how do you do that? Well today, I’m going to outline the first steps I’m personally taking in seeking to get Oracle published traditionally. …
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Independence
Let us sing for the ones who are so self-reliant we cannot accept someone lending a hand; whose rejection of help goes beyond just defiance – who need to do everything just like we planned. We’ll work independently without a care, but put us in groups and the tension will …