I have wasted my time writing. Here's what I mean; I have wasted months on going through draft after draft of my work and fine tuning it and trying to fix it. I needed to admit something to myself: I'm not an editor. By trying to craft the perfect draft I have wasted my time. I'm in the weeds, I can't see the forest for the trees (insert your favourite analogy on not being able to see the bigger picture here.) So I hired an editor. One of the most frustrating yet relieving fe

I’ve always shied away from writing characters that weren’t, on some level, related to me. What I mean by this is any character that wasn’t a straight white male. I learned quickly that this leads to very one dimensional stories (or worse, retelling the same story just repackaged.) I realised that writing diverse characters is not only essential to my success as a writer, but it’s crucial to my actual growth as an author. But I was faced with a daunting question: what gives