It's been one of those funny months where I feel like I've barely written a word yet it appears I have actually written much more than a few. Maybe it's because I've been writing everywhere but here! So in case you've missed it ... here's where I have been: Over at Kidspot I am interviewing inspirational mothers about how they manage that tricky balance between their passions and their children. … [Read more...]
What do readers want? If a reader can’t tell the difference between a piece written by a punter versus a professional paid writer, and doesn’t care, then writing as a paid profession might be about to change dramatically. I am just going to give you a second to process this fairly cogent point that Rachel made in response to this post. Blogging (and I guess the internet in general) has … [Read more...]
Just over 18 months ago I walked away from my business and left it in my husband’s hands. At the time I was so burnt out I didn’t care who was in charge of things as long as it wasn’t me. I was also humouring my hubby. I thought it would take about six months for him to work out that running a busy design business with 3.5 staff, two contractors and over 200 active clients was too much … [Read more...]
Last year Ms Maxabella Loves threw down the challenge to her readers to live their years by a single word (rather than making resolutions that fall by the wayside by January 3.) In 2012 that word for me was “No”. And while that might sound a little negative, if you are anything like me (people pleaser, compulsive helper, likes to be liked) then you will have some idea of how easy it is … [Read more...]
Over the course of the day 30 emails were exchanged. Tough questions were asked. And I was getting more and more dismayed. Her: What do you want Kelly? Me: ‘This’ is what I want. Her: Well you have that already. This was not what I wanted to hear – that I was already at the summit. Nothing left to conquer. Goals achieved. So I started to lie. To give the answers I thought … [Read more...]
It's no secret that I love me a manifesto - after all I have written and designed quite a few of them over at The Smile Collective in the last 18 months or so. The thing I love most about them is that they combine my two creative loves - writing and design. Well in the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of working with some lovely bloggers on manifestos for their respective readers. Being … [Read more...]
So last week’s post touched a nerve. But it also stimulated some truly amazing discussion in the comments. And for me, what the comments showed is there is nothing black and white when it comes writing (or creating) for free. Especially on the internet. Given all the interesting thoughts and questions raised in the comments I figured a follow-up post was required. So here goes (I can’t … [Read more...]
A couple days ago I started following an interesting debate on twitter. I use the terms 'interesting' and ‘debate’ loosely actually because really it was an all-out attack on an individual person – Mia Freedman. (If you want to see what it was all about, read Mia’s response here). Regular readers of this blog already know I am a Mia fan so I was going to stay out of this whole thing … [Read more...]
I haven’t done a book battle in a while and for today’s effort, I have really drawn the finest of threads. I am also about to put my slightly eclectic reading tastes on display for everyone to see. So, what exactly do these two books have in common that make them suitable to go into battle? Well they are both written by Australian authors. And I read both of them in two sittings. What? … [Read more...]
One of my lovely readers (hi Chris!) sent me a link to this article last week entitled You've strived ... you've won ... now what? Funnily enough, Ant had send me the link to the same article the day before. The article describes something that is very common to compulsive strivers and over-achievers – they call it Summit Syndrome: You’ve been working hard to master a new job or to perfect … [Read more...]
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