Joanne Anderton

Each new novel I write teaches me things. While this one is still too far from finished to know the full extent of these lessons, I have learned one thing already. I need to plan Writing and Real Life around each other better than I do. For example, it’s probably not a good idea to [...]

Well, it’s been just over a month of first-draft writing and I am way behind on goal. Unimpressed at myself here. Main reason? Day-job has been knocking me out. By the end of the week, I’m zombie-girl, or ’she who cannot form a sentence and just wants to sleep’. Probably up for another month of [...]

Yes, a novel requires lots of planning. Notes and brainstorming and lists and timelines. But there is a point where the planning becomes procrastinating. For me, that time is now.

And I know why. It’s because I am afraid. Afraid that I won’t be able to replicate whatever it was I did right in the last [...]