Time Management, Superpower
How lucky we are to wake up in the morning knowing that today we get to do the work we love. Writers are fortunate in this, […]
Articles by Melanie Anastasiou
Your Writer’s Life: Six Ways You’re Living it Now
Few will argue that the path to being a full-time writer isn’t a challenging one, but then it’s also difficult to become doctors and lawyers and […]
Time Management Tricks for Strategic Outlining
“We all do what scientists call mental practice or mental rehearsing when we memorize answers for a test, learn lines for a play, or rehearse […]
Gifted Storytellers and the Small Screen
Whenever I ask myself, “How did the Duke of Marlborough personally lead all those winning battles and then handle the whole country’s international relations across […]
Time Management and The Writing Life
How we manage our time as full-time writers within our full-time lives is a story rich in conflict and joy. Like any good tale it […]
Doing the Math For Your Writing Career
If you want to lead a full-time writing career in your full-time life, consider the happy mathematics of writing books. Writers talk about books taking six […]
Transitions in Storytelling: Milestones and Memories
I’m reading a social history of the UK in the 1950s, Family Britain, which in the hands of a lesser writer might read like a […]
Writer’s Block Could Just Be Lassie at the Cliff Edge
From time to time writers may face blank pages and find their minds are blank, too. Some give up. That’s it, I’m at 30,000 words […]
Colouring Paradise: Andy Warhol and White Space
This little girl from the late 15th Century is looking out at something none of us can see, the moment before deciding whether to step […]
Colouring Paradise: Angel Over Castle
I love the look in this angel’s eye. The late 15th century model was a peripheral funereal bronze by the del Pollaiuolo brothers. When I […]