Annie Percik

The Owl

An eagle eye

Surveys my heart

Noting the changes since it awoke

Whispering wings

Convey my love

Feather soft and strong as oak

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Recent posts

Weeknotes - S03E25 - It Takes Some Grit

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I have a schedule now for completing Colours by my deadline. Two scenes per writing session. Every session so far, I have started by rewriting my schedule to see if I can give myself the excuse of not doing that day’s scenes. Then I have taken myself to task, knuckled down, and actually produced them with very little problem in a very short amount of time. Sometimes, you need a stick.

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Weeknotes S03E24 - Getting Back Into The Groove

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Reasonably slow come-back after a break, but still good progress on both novels and a couple of other bits completed as well.

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Too Fast

On Saturday May 11 2019, my winning entry for the Just Back travel writing competition was printed in the travel section of the Daily Telegraph.

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Taking A Complete Break

I’ve talked a lot in various blog entries about finding brain space, not taking on too much and trying not to put myself under too much pressure with my writing. But last week, I had an entirely new experience of taking a complete break from everything.

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Weeknotes - S02E23 - Appreciating Time Off

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A welcome proper break from writing this week, with no guilt and a lot of reflection. Looking forward to picking it all back up again in the week coming.

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Overcoming the Fear of Submission

An article I wrote about How to Overcome The Fear of Submitting Your Fiction has appeared as a guest blog post on the wonderful Well-Storied.

You can read it here.

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Weeknotes - S03E22 - Meeting Targets

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I gave myself a deadline of the end of this week to complete my edits on Artisan and get to the end of Colours Part One - and I succeeded with both! I also managed a fair few other writing targets, not least of which was clearing my submissions list. Fly, my pretties, fly!

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Weeknotes - S03E21 - Still Feeling Good

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Another productive week, particularly on the novels front. And also some great news of publication acceptances. So good all round.

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