So happy this morning, I've just had a plotting breakthrough. A big one.

Getting away from work really does make such a difference (cue belated realisation of the absolutely, utterly obvious).

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Jet-lagged in Vienna, working at 4am on payments, tenders, quotes. Found out that we are the preferred tenderer for one contract, working with a Swiss supplier through their US subsidiary. Nice start to the day ( Read more... )

If you got to (and validated) the 50k word count target last November you will find a promo code when you log into the NaNoWriMo site. I'm sure you know this already ( Read more... )

Christmas was wonderful, I hope that it was the same for all of you. I have been catching up on sleep recently and doing some little bits of hand sewing, a quiet bout of soothing undemanding creativity. One happy result of these activities is that some of the scrunched up parts of my brain have unravelled again and I find myself ready to revise one ( Read more... )

Wow - I was just led to this link by a post from Lois McMaster Bujold. It's a TED talk, "Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity". She talks about writing, creativity, and different cultural interpretations of the idea of 'genius'. She likes the idea that instead of rare people 'being' geniuses, all of us 'have' genius, and every now and then ( Read more... )

I've been to the gym today; I'm still enjoying a gorgeous endorphin high. I have noticed that even in a gym where there are only women I can still pick up a certain degree of posing and competitiveness and even a bit of flirting, although it's less than I have seen in mixed groups. As I lingered longer than usual on one particular piece of ( Read more... )

Excitement, delight, jubilation! A day later I'm still buzzing. I found out yesterday that I won a travel writing competition! I'm one of twelve winners, actually, but the prize is a luxury weekend away thanks to ( (product mention here - avert your eyes if you prefer) )