Friday 23 September 2016

Autumn is here!

Autumn is officially here! Which means the leaves are changing color, the air is getting cooler, shops are all stacked up for Halloween and even Christmas in some super eager places. I love this time of year. I love that I can get snugged up under my blanket and not sweat my ass off. I love that it's time to get our coats on, and hats and scarves and gloves. I love that it's time for hearty hot dinners and hot chocolates. I love that there are piles of crunchy leaves on the pavements for me and my wee sprog to jump into. I'm just a big autumn fan.

So happy autumn you guys!

When you just gotta stand and stare. . .


So I was doing a quick shop at Morrisons the other day, getting a few bits. Parked up the car with my mum and wee sprog, made our way towards the entrance. My mum gives me a funny look and it's then that I overhear the heated argument going on in the disabled parking area. There's an old man and a large woman stood there, both parked next to one another in disabled spots, just going AT it right there on the road. The guy was super pissed at the woman because she wasn't displaying a disabled badge and he thought that it was super wrong of her to be parked there if she wasn't disabled. So the woman yells back that just because he couldn't see her disability, doesn't mean she doesn't have one and who was he to judge her. Both making valid points so far. So then the guy looks her up and down and says, "If being fat is a disability, then that doesn't count!"

It was at that point that I had to stop literally standing there and watching, because you can only get away with that shit for so long and my evil laughter wasn't helping. Sometimes I am not a very nice person.

Don't know who won the little skirmish, but both cars were gone by the time I got back out.

Friday 16 September 2016

Ma little smush face


Here's ma lil smushy chops, being all cute and smushy

The pros and cons of being an author

Though I've been writing for most of my life, I've only been publishing my work now for a couple of years. Honestly it's been the best, yet most difficult, couple years of my life. I'm not huge, and my books don't sell by the mill, but the readers that I do have are the best. And I get to do something I absolutely love, every day.

So what are some of the cons?

Well for starters like any job, it's hard. You have to put the hours in, and finding those at home isn't always easy. There are always distractions - kids, chores, animals, general day to day life. But if you love what you do, like I do, you find the time. You put the hours in. You find a few minutes here and there in between tidying the house and making dinner and lunches and getting the school things ready for the next day. You forgo the long, leisurely bath in the evening when the kids are in bed and you use that time instead to write. You just find the time.

And then there's the instability of it. You never know whether a story is going to be popular or not, so relying on the income to pay the bills isn't always an option. Sometimes a book is a hit, but the next one isn't so popular. And sometimes the books that are popular don't stay that way for long.

Of course there's writer's block. That comes and goes. Everyone's experience with writer's block is different, but the one thing we can all agree on is that it's no frigging fun.

But I have to tell you, the positives outweigh the negative a million times over.

First off, I'm doing this amazing thing that I love and I get to share it with the world. I get to hear feedback, positive and negative. And through the negatives I learn so much, which I'm always thankful for.

There is nothing more amazing than having these ideas in your head and being able to get them all out in a way that makes sense. For all the times I was ever disappointed how a book ended, now I have complete control (or as much control as the characters allow me, at least).

If I want to work in my jammies, I can do that. Hell, as long as I've got my laptop I don't even need to get out of bed. I want to write completely starkers? Yep, can do that to. I get to do what I love with all the comforts of home

And there's so much more. I'm incredibly thankful that I've managed to find something in the world that I truly love doing

Friday 9 September 2016

Eerie stuffs


Absolutely love spooky stuff like this. Don't know if it's real, but it's eerie as hell. Would make a great story in one way or another