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Archive: The Journey To 100k
This is a post from 2014 that was lost when I migrated my site last year. I did it! I’ve got a complete first draft of my novel, The Colour Fence (now Cape of Storms). Over the last two months I have written over 70,000 words and now have a completed first draft of 106,000 words. I am aware that the real work is yet to begin; there will be countless edits, revisions and drafts ahead, followed by the search for an agent and/or publisher…but, before I think about that, I’m taking a moment to celebrate what has taken me 16 years to achieve – a complete, rough, first…
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Archive: Writing Dream or Profession?
First Posted on October 28, 2014 by BGBOWERS Are you gazing at a writing dream or fostering a writing career? That is today’s question… If you’d asked me this question 17 months ago, when I started this blog and began my creative writing journey in earnest, I would have answered “a bit of both”. On the one hand, I believed that hard work and dedication would be key components for genuine progression and eventual success, but, on the other hand, I held a misconception; that passion and purpose (aka a ‘calling’) was enough of a sword to conquer the mythical beast that I perceived writing to be. Between you and me,…
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lobby4love.org
Dear Readers, Lobby4Love now has a dedicated website [http://lobby4love.org] where I will be blogging regularly. I hope you’ll join me there too. Thanks, Bianca x
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Endings and Beginnings
ENDINGS I recently took a break from social media because I had lost my why. Whatever goal I started out with was no longer driving or exciting me. Even my #lobby4love, which began as a labour of love, felt like a meaningless obligation. After serious consideration I stepped away to gain perspective about the root of my restlessness. After a few days of introspection I concluded that I had reached the end of a personal cycle (several different cycles in fact, one of which I’ll discuss here and others in future posts). WRITING & SOCIAL MEDIA CYCLE 4 years ago I started a new cycle by stepping out of the…
