News from Sarah Painter

  • Monday Motivation: Community

    Last week I shared my new colouring-in method for recording word count and, I’m happy to report, it has continued to work well for me. Even on bad-writing days, I would say to myself that I only had to write a sentence or two and I could colour in my…

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  • Monday Motivation: Writing A Rainbow

    I’m considering a new regular feature on the blog: Monday Motivation.* I’ll share my latest and shiniest tricks for staying motivated. (Or, if work is not going well, wail and whine about that. Sounds fun, huh?!) Writing a novel is a long old slog and, even with the best of…

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  • Friday Five: The self-involved edition

    Hello, hello! How are you all? It’s been an exciting couple of weeks with The Secrets of Ghosts going out into the world (eek!) and getting some lovely reviews (phew!). Plus, I’ve been knuckling down on my WIP. It’s so satisfying to see the word count go up and I’m…

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