A writer's white lies
So when I made this page I had all these grand ideas of writing regular blog posts.
If you have a look at the posts that have been made you'll quickly notice that that has absolutely not happened.
I guess one of the problems is that it is writing, and so much of my life is based around writing. Different types of writing battling it out for my limited time.
I'm currently 2.5 years into what will (hopefully) a 3 to 3.5 year PhD. And doing a PhD means doing a lot of reading and a lot of writing (apart from the whole research and analysis side of things). I love my PhD and I love my project and I have an amazing lab full of people but sometimes it's challenging to sit in front of a computer and write all day and then come home and switch to my fantasy author version of me and sit and front of a computer and write more.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't enjoy it, it's just tricky!
Wildfire took me ages to write, because (and if you know me you'll know this is true) my life is always too busy. I love too many things. While writing Wildfire I was also in high school and then, later, completing my Masters degree at uni and planning a move overseas to Japan.
In fact, in the space of six days, I launched Wildfire, graduated from my Masters degree and moved to Osaka. Looking back now I wouldn't change a thing because I've been lucky enough that everything has turned out excellently. At the time though, it was crazy and hectic and very nearly ended with nothing getting done properly!
Now that I'm back from Japan (and maybe I will write about that here sometime) I'm studying again. Which has unfortunately meant that other things often fall to the back burner. When I'm reading I feel like I should be writing the Wildfire sequel, when I'm writing the Wildfire sequel I feel I should be working on my PhD. It's a bit of a never-ending cycle!
That being said, one thing I don't ever want to do is write the sequel but only half write it or write it so that it's not as good as it should be, simply because I didn't spend the time on it that I should have.
Anyway, I guess what this essentially is, is an explanation and a bit of an apology. And a promise that while I might not be writing blogs and chapters as much as perhaps I should be, I am writing them. And I'm trying my best to make sure that they are also their best.
I think maybe when I started this and said I was going to write blog posts regularly, I meant it, but I think also there was a quiet part of me I ignored that knew that this might never happen. Which means you could class it as a sort of lie, but hopefully only a little white lie. I'm also pretty good at making myself feel guilty for not doing these sorts of things and I'll try and be more on top of it all!
In the meantime if you want to know what I'm up to you can always check out the Facebook page or my twitter account! Both of those accounts are writing/author specific, but if you want to know what else I'm doing with my life (which inevitably includes book writing and reading, but also things like travel and hobbies!) then come visit me on instagram @claire.louise_
More blog posts to follow at some point, and also an announcement soon about an upcoming expo!
Claire Louise xx