“Are you bored yet?” This is the most common question that people have been asking me since I’ve become a bit housebound thanks to some pregnancy dramas. At first, I was a little surprised to be asked. Then it kept happening, and I realised that obviously a lot of people think they would be bored if they were in my situation, “stuck” at home.
Of course, I’d much prefer to be still at work teaching, and also able to get out of the house a bit more (although I don’t miss …

You might remember how my mother solved my “shower thinking” problem by finding me some waterproof notebooks which I can use to jot down ideas that come to me while I am in the shower. Well, there are now two more things I have to tell you today about waterproof notebooks. Who would’ve thought it was such an important topic?
First off, I’ve discovered yet another great use for waterproof notebooks for fiction writers. Or for any writers, I guess. Thanks to some lovely pregnancy-related dramas (pelvis problems and leg swelling, …

A while back I blogged about writers writing ideas down “anywhere”, including writing on pianos if necessary. And in that post I mentioned that I’d been trying to figure out how to deal with all the great ideas I come up with while in the shower, which seems to be the absolute best place for me to get inspirational brainwaves.
Well, my dear, wonderful mother read that post, and without mentioning it to me, she set to work to solve my problem. She’s obviously a bit cleverer than me, and figured out …

It’s been a couple of months now since I finally unpacked every book I own into my amazing new bookshelves. My dream of having a room that looks like a library is now pretty much true (except that they’re not catalogued or anything, and there’s no woman in the corner telling me to be quiet).
One of the sections of these bookshelves (I’ll include a picture sometime – there are 48 square compartments to them) includes pretty much my entire collection of notebooks, both from travelling and general fiction scribbling notebooks …