It’s easy for us to get caught in the trap of: “I haven’t done enough this year”. Sometimes we feel like we’re behind the eight ball, that we’ve failed. Sometimes we think we haven’t really achieved anything; that the year…
Hannah Smith
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Yesterday marked the first day of unemployment for yours truly. Well, not exactly. Technically, I’m on annual leave for a couple of weeks and then my contract officially ends. I’ll be paid out some long service leave and then officially, I’m…
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After a decade of employ at the same place, I quit. I quit my job. Me, a woman who loves routine and habit and security, quit her job. I have just over a month before I finish, but I don’t…
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I’ve been completely out of the loop with all things author-related lately. I’ve been battling through some serious burn-out and mental health stuff, so I decided to take a break from: Posting and scrolling on Instagram (which I never thought…
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What up? Yeah, same. I haven’t written a blog in FOREVER and I was thinking about why that was recently. Turns out there are a number of reasons, some of which are listed below: Attempting to get a first draft…
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*Some minor spoilers ensue I’ve only ever welled up with one book before. It was Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, and it was the second time I read it. It was last year when I was experiencing burnout, the pandemic…
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February was a rollercoaster month of emotions. For starters, I missed out on a self-publishing course by a few minutes and I had an actual meltdown. I received feedback from my beta readers. It was a daunting experience. I couldn’t…
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For all my fellow writers out there, struggling to get through your current work in progress, I see you and I feel you. This shit is tough. For me, it’s mostly tough because I get in my own God damn…
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Do you love yourself an addictive contemporary romance? Because same. I don’t know why it’s taken me a pandemic to get on board with the Ten Tiny Breaths series, but I’m not mad about it (I mean, I’m not mad…
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Given the shitshow that has been the year 2020, I feel very lucky to have managed a lovely, albeit brief, getaway. My partner and I decided to spend four nights in Mooloolaba, Queensland. We chose somewhere within driving distance because…