Another productive session. I love digging around in the archives so it was easy to get into 'flow' reading sources and taking notes / writing questions to myself. I now have a skeleton for the next chapter ready for my next writing session. #amwriting #writingcommunity #Ghostbook #history

😮 Warm here in Pōneke, too - currently 18C at my place (although we're making up for that with biblical rain).

Commiserations! Do you have some good strategies for shifting the block? I always find going back to my sources helps, or else doing something creative that isn't writing.

2 hours in and things went better than expected. I finished the first draft of Ch 3! 🎉 Now, tea break and some journaling 🫖✒️, then I'll do some research for Ch 4. Digging into the sources is my fav part, so it will be a treat. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingretreat #Ghostbook #history

Good tip! I'm definitely going to organise a hiking trip up there for spring.

I have a (very) long list of places I want to visit in Aotearoa, and the goblin forest has now been added.

*Photo is from Stuff.

This is a very cool idea. Niche, but cool!

Day 3 is done! I achieved all my writing goals for today and in fact, I'm a bit ahead of where I expected to be on this chapter. It's such a buzz when I read my own writing and think 'hey, this is actually pretty good!' #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingretreat #Ghostbook

Oops, took a short break that turned into 2 hours but getting back to it now for at least another hour... Posting here is keeping me honest!

Day 3 of my virtual #writingretreat today. My goal is 4-6 pomodoros editing Ch 3. and incorporating some secondary lit. on ghosts and the undead in medieval Britain (thank you Nancy Caciola). Join me if you need an accountability buddy! 😀✒️ #amwriting #WritingCommunity #Ghostbook

😩 I'm surprised there are any empty bins left after they sent them around New Zealand.

I'll be here all week if you feel up to it at any point 😀

Hello! I hope the new job is going well (not so new now, I guess) and the move has worked out.

Ha ha, snap! I saw a message about ANZAMEMS and wondered if you'd be there. I probably won't make it to the conference (going to the NZHA conference the week before) but I'll be in Melbourne in late Feb/early March, so hopefully we can catch up. Would love to see you again!

Woot, had a good session today. My sources were lots of fun as well as providing lots of rich material to interpret and reflect on. I've finished a very rough Section 4 so tomorrow it will be on to editing and refining. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writingretreat #Ghostbook

Thanks! We'll see how it goes and if I'm still smashing the pomodoros out by the end of the week... Winter weather here helps, since it's not too tempting to bunk off outdoors!