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Category: Scotland

Posted on March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

Wanderlust: Scotland, England. 02/01/13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6YLn0LI3M We brought in the New Year at the Hoggamany Festival in Edinburgh.  It was amazing, we did a tour of the highlands with a Scottish man called Scott! I'm not even kidding.. He told tales of the history while talking over Scottish music.  The countryside of Scotland is absolutely beautiful and I saw snow …

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Feelin very happy 🎊 I have nearly finished writing my YA fantasy book and will be sending it out to agents and editors next year 🤯 It's the first of a trilogy and has lots of magic, mythical creatures, mysterious lands, evil tyrants and a cheeky romance (because we all love an intense romance and sex scene, don't even pretend) 🤗 #nanowrimo2019 #yaauthor #yafantasyseries #yafantasyauthor #yaromance #authorsofinsta
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Tonight I reached 15k words of my story for #nanowrimo2019 and I know its not where everyone else is up too and I almost gave up because I kept comparing myself to everyone else. Don't do that 🤦‍♀️ But I pushed through that and just focused on my journey and now I'm here!! I probably won't make the 50k goal but it doesn't matter because I have formed an active habit of writing which is far more important than anything else 🥰 And a huge thank you to @inspiredtowrite for your constant online transparency and inspiration to KEEP GOING! #happywriting #nanowrimo
We are forced to move on, whether we like it or not 🍃
A beautiful and magical weekend of daydreaming, journaling and reading surrounded by the serenity of nature 🍂 The Idiot is a hilarious contemporary fiction that I've just started and is my 30th book for 2019, this completes my goal of reading 30 books for the year and we've still got 2 months to go! 😊 Buuuuut... Next week is the beginning of #nanowrimo2019 which means all my fellow author friends from around the globe will be knuckling down to write 50,000words in one month. I'm cheating and rewriting my YA fantasy series that I started when I was 15 years old because it begs to be completed (it's almost been another 15 years now 🤦‍♀️) I always get so conflicted because I have soooo many ideas for stories that itch at me to pay attention to them but I really need to learn the art of monotasking and just stick with the completion of ONE novel for November before moving into the next. I also used to have a lot of creative shame when it came to sharing my creative journey in a public space, I still do sometimes, but I'm working on it ⚒️ . . . #nanowrimo #amwriting #yafantasyseries #yafantasy #yafantasyauthor #authorsofinsta #writersofinsta #writingcommunity #aussieauthors #aussieauthor #authortube #authortuber #booktube #booktuber #byronbaylife

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Is there anything better than a laugh with some good friends? ❤️🍷 🧀
Feelin very happy 🎊 I have nearly finished writing my YA fantasy book and will be sending it out to agents and editors next year 🤯 It's the first of a trilogy and has lots of magic, mythical creatures, mysterious lands, evil tyrants and a cheeky romance (because we all love an intense romance and sex scene, don't even pretend) 🤗 #nanowrimo2019 #yaauthor #yafantasyseries #yafantasyauthor #yaromance #authorsofinsta
20k tonight ✨ Your voice. Your story. Deserves to be seen, heard and understood. But we can only do that if we share it with the world. Sometimes that can be too painful and we are not ready to talk about it yet, not ready to tell it because we are still working through it. 🍃 But I feel ready.. And I am motivated and confident now whereas before I lived in constant creative shame and fear of being judged and criticised for opening up. Creative shame is the fucking WORST! 🤦‍♀️ I am proud of myself for reaching 20k even though I am behind the goal of #nanowrimo2019 I don't feel behind, I feel like I'm winning because I'm beating myself. I'm owning who I want to be and forming a solid writing habit to take me there. 🕯️ How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives - Annie Dillard 🏹 #amwriting #nanowrimo
Tonight I reached 15k words of my story for #nanowrimo2019 and I know its not where everyone else is up too and I almost gave up because I kept comparing myself to everyone else. Don't do that 🤦‍♀️ But I pushed through that and just focused on my journey and now I'm here!! I probably won't make the 50k goal but it doesn't matter because I have formed an active habit of writing which is far more important than anything else 🥰 And a huge thank you to @inspiredtowrite for your constant online transparency and inspiration to KEEP GOING! #happywriting #nanowrimo

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