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A heart to heart with Craig Gibb: On pen names and writing romance and erotica

2019-10-21
By Mariëlle
On 21 October 2019
In Blog posts, Interviews
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In this Heart to Heart, recorded on 29 June 2019, I sat down with Craig Gibb to talk about pen names in romance and erotica. In this honest conversation, various topics were addressed, including the privilege of being able to choose a pen name or not: for some writers, being absolutely private about who they really are is a matter of life and death.

After recording what I considered to be a beautiful sharing of thoughts, I had an immense scare: Facebook only showed about two minutes of the recording. It wasn’t until weeks later that the recording was somehow repaired and the entire conversation became accessible again.

When you find yourself not writing, don’t beat yourself up over it!

2018-10-08
By Mariëlle
On 8 October 2018
In Author mindset
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Every Monday morning, I go Live on Facebook to talk about the creative mindset. On this particular day (the Monday after the launch of my 3-month 1:1 Coaching for Writers Programme and the publishing of the first My Voice Story Anthology), I bring up the dreaded question—how’s your writing been lately?!—and why there’s no point in beating yourself up too hard when you find yourself not writing for a little while.

It’s all good, as long as you know WHY you aren’t writing!

(This video might very well go down in history as the video in which I which I was so tired, as I keep repeating, that I forgot how the English language works.)

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