Category: writing

  Nanowrimo keeps me at home, out of the streets, away from alcohol, and smokes. I am squeaky-clean geeky. I am that girl who goes straight home after work. I wouldn’t have imagined it possible but my liver and my lungs are possibly the cleanest they have been for years.

Can I do it? Can I do it? Oh I don’t know. =/ Day 2 of NaNoWriMo, and I’ve written about 4000-plus words. I’ve been self-psychoing myself, saying you can do it Ally! It’s just er, 50 000 words!, reading tweets on #nanowrimo to motivate myself, and reading the word counts of other people to…

our demons don’t really die, they just lie dormant. until we are at our most vulnerable – then they emerge and eat us alive. they don’t come in the light of day during our happier moments or even at night, when there’s someone at our side. so you give up the fight thinking that you…