Celebrate the Small Things - 30 May 2014

Greetings! It is time to Celebrate The Small Things.

This blog hop is very easy - just post a celebration, however small or big, in your blog. Sign up on the linky, and hop around and celebrate with others.

I am hosting this as usual with my mighty fine co-hosts:

Diana Wilder
LG Keltner @ Writing Off the Edge
Cyborg Mom (Katie)
CaffeMaggieato @ mscoffeehouse

Please do say hello to them ;)

This week I am celebrating...

• Seeing friends for lunch
• The support of CPs
• Reading all about BEA!
• Twitter! Shall we tweet links to our CTST posts? The lovely http://shahwharton.com/ suggested this so if you are up for it join in on #CTST and we'll see how you go. I'll tweet mine later in the day my time ;)

How about you?

Here's the linky...

Celebrate The Small Things: 23 May edition

Greetings! It is time to Celebrate The Small Things.

This blog hop is very easy - just post a celebration, however small or big, in your blog. Sign up on the linky, and hop around and celebrate with others.

I am hosting this as usual with my mighty fine co-hosts:

Diana Wilder
LG Keltner @ Writing Off the Edge
Cyborg Mom (Katie)
CaffeMaggieato @ mscoffeehouse

Please do say hello to them ;)

This week I am celebrating...

That I am away for a few days with my boyfriend - a bit of work, a bit of visiting friends
That I celebrated my friend's birthday with a fun day out and some karaoke. I remember all the words to 'Ice Ice Baby' I am (actually not at all) ashamed to admit. 
'We Built This City': I'm sorry, it ROCKS as a karaoke tune

What are you celebrating?

Here's the linky...

Celebrate The Small Things - 16 May 2014

Greetings! It is time to Celebrate The Small Things.

This blog hop is very easy - just post a celebration, however small or big, in your blog. Sign up on the linky, and hop around and celebrate with others.

This week I am celebrating four big things: my new co-hosts!

I have had FOUR LOVELY people offer to help me co-host! I am celebrating their generosity in helping me and the fun I'll have having them along! :)

Each of them will help me by visiting a section of the list, so we can be sure to keep it up to date, and helping me co-host. 

So DO visit them, say hello (especially if they give you a visit), credit them if you can, etc. 

Without further ado, my fine co-hosts are:

Diana Wilder
LG Keltner @ Writing Off the Edge
Cyborg Mom (Katie)
CaffeMaggieato @ mscoffeehouse

HURRAH!!! 

I am very pleased and excited to have them along! :)

Here's the linky...

Celebrate The Small Things: 9 May

Greetings and time to celebrate again!

The rules are so simple I barely need to say them: post celebrations from the past week in your blog - they can be as small as you like, whatever you like - sign up on the linky and hop around and celebrate!

Last week I asked if anyone wanted to help co-host and I had a couple of kind responses - I'll mail you this weekend. If anyone else is interested pop a comment here too, can help as small or as much as you like.

I'm celebrating:

1. I had a three day weekend and it was sunny and restful and ahhhh
2. Holiday leave is all booked and sorted - hurrah!
3. Finished a rough draft of my MS YAY! It is so so rough but hey! A break before tidying...

How about you?

Here's the linky:

Insecure Writers Support Group - 7 May

Greetings. 

It is time (if I calculated first Wed of the month correctly) for the Insecure Writers Support Group. All the details can be found here. It is the brilliant brainchild of Alex J. Cavanaugh and enables us to share our fears and support each other.

This month I am thinking about First Drafts. 

We all know - I think - that when writing a first draft, you have to give yourself permission for them to suck. First drafts are rough! They can be edited! I know this in theory.

It's hard to do in reality. Why I manage to work in grammar errors where I know the rule perfectly well, continuity inconsistencies and confuse myself with names, I have no idea. But I do. And I beat myself up about them. Even though I told myself not to.

It's especially awkward when I don't manage to tidy those out before showing them to a patient CP!

But I tell myself, this is how it goes. I know I can edit. I know first drafts suck. I have to allow myself the reality of that, is all. Repeat until I believe it.

Any tips?

Celebrate The Small Things - 2nd May

Hello everyone and how have we got to MAY? Can anybody tell me, hmm? It's a mystery!

We are ready to celebrate small again hurrah! How-it-works is simple: post celebrations from the week, however small - that nice cup of tea, a friendly word with a stranger, fun post - sign up on the linky, and celebrate with others!

Apologies I didn't make it round everyone's blogs last week. I am finding it hard life/work wise to have as much blogging time as I'd like, but I DO appreciate everybody joining in. I may not make it round every week but I will as much as I can. I do hope everybody doesn't mind.

If anybody is interested in 'co-hosting' this and taking it turns to visit everyone or any other co-hosting fun, then let me know!

As for the list, I am going to leave it a couple of weeks for people to catch up post A-Z then do a clean up!

Celebrations for me this week:

- All those amazing people who did every day of A-Z: YOU ROCK
- Chatting to my amazing CPs, picking up a new CP, general CP amazing-ness
- BFs birthday went off well with dinner and present so hurrah
- Three day weekend for me - YAY
- Organising some holiday leave today

How about you?

Here's the linky: