by sharon zink | Apr 11, 2017 | articles, emotion, inspiration, resilience
Are you feeling discouraged? The beastie called Discouragement can darken our door during long creative projects, when we’re going through a tough period of rejections, or even when we publish a book and don’t get the feedback we wanted from the world....
by sharon zink | Mar 30, 2017 | emotion, inspiration, productivity, The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s interviewee is Sara Bailey, whose debut novel, Dark Water, has recently been published by Nightingale Editions to great reviews (and it is in my pile for reading soon!). Based on Orkney, Sara’s work is influenced by the island’s rich...
by sharon zink | Mar 28, 2017 | emotion, inspiration, productivity, resilience, writing tips
Some of you may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet on my blog in recent weeks with no new posts, interviews or videos, and this has been partly because I was focused on supporting peeps with the #writingmojomarch writing challenge and partly because I made...
by sharon zink | Feb 28, 2017 | #writingmojomarch, emotion, inspiration, resilience, writing challenge
It took me ten years to get my first novel, Welcome to Sharonville, published. It wasn’t just getting rejections from agents and conflicting feedback from editors which paralysed me and led to to me putting a MS which later was longlisted for The Guardian First...
by sharon zink | Feb 23, 2017 | emotion, The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s The Book Diner interview is from the archives, but I’m proud to share it again on my new site as it’s not often you get to talk to a bestselling author – and especially not one I sent a fan message to! I first became a fan of...
by sharon zink | Feb 17, 2017 | emotion, productivity, Uncategorized, video, writing tips
In this week’s two short videos, I’m here to tell you that YOU GOT THIS and to help you see what a badass you are so that you can get past the creative fears that may be holding you back from being as productive and inspired as you might like. By looking at how...
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