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January should be book month!
• Reading books: dive into a new book, creep back into an old favourite, just disappear between some pages.
• Writing books: if ever there was a month made for writing, it’s January, after the hectic Christmas preparations and the partying, January can seem empty and cold, but the ideal month to write. Jump joyfully into the void left by Christmas and explore your imagination.
• Illustrating books: What could be better than creating illustrations, bringing characters to life?
• Buying books: I seem to find books to buy even without trying, especially when I’m researching how to sell them!
• Selling books: The trickier part of writing, launching the finished books out into the world for readers to dive into and loose themselves between the pages…
because more words are always needed, words for the story, words to tell people about the story, and words to bring customers into the online bookshop.
Knit your own sheep, knit a flock... knitting pattern PDF
but the work also in progress is...
and catching a story is like a game of cat and mouse through the imagination.
Are you the author? – who me? The one sat behind the local author book signing sign...
But sometimes just to make that first mark is all it takes to free the imagination
I’m mindful of the analogy of keeping plates spinning, but sometimes it can be hard to tackle tasks that need a lot of brain power, while trying to spin plates
Self publishing is all about multitasking, which is definitely playing out this year
And what is more unruly than a sheep? Well a flock of sheep springs to mind… because where there’s one sheep, another one is sure to follow.
If daydreaming with a pencil in hand looks productive, then hopefully tapping away at the keyboard is next level productive…