ness kingsley: writes, reads, rants & rambles
I've learned a truth: you’ll never get around to doing anything unless you make time for it. Do you want to organise your bookshelves according to tropes? Do you long to become ambidextrous? Investigate the lifecycles of newts? Have regular conversations with your local oak tree? (Don't. You'll receive several bemused looks.) (Or do.) Do… Continue reading writing when there seems to be no time
Plan an outting. It doesn't have to be expensive: buy some snacks, grab a book or a friend (with their permission. Of course) and go.
It started because I'm as excellent at remembering birthdays as I am at maths. (I am terrible at maths.) Recently, I wrote the words 'The End' to Project If. I've been basking in the weight of 'I must get this story told' finally - FINALLY - rolling off my shoulders. Sure, there's so much more… Continue reading writing a first draft
It isn't for pride, it isn't for fame, it isn't for anything except a single thing: I want to take joy in what my imagination has produced.
Let me regale you with the adventures I've somewhat recently taken between the pages of books, thundering away at a keyboard, and - memorably - in a cinema seat. YOUNG ADULT NOVELS AND I STILL DON'T GET ALONG I DNF'd A Curse So Dark and Lonely - it wasn't my cup of tea, and ...… Continue reading books and movies and entwives
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