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orandoyle.com

Children's fiction writer

Category: Mental health

Cold comfort camping

Three nights camping in Snowdownia in cold, wet and wind ahead of me… I can’t wait.

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After everything that’s happened

After publishing 65 monthly blog posts in a row, I missed November, December and January. It’s good to good. It’s better to get it done.

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Waiting to relax

Dammit, we paid a lot for this stupid holiday so why am I not relaxed yet?

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The DM’Terview: Stuart White on rejection & shining our light

In a Twitter DM interview, Stuart White – kidslit writer and WriteMentor founder – shares his hardwon wisdom on overcoming rejection and finding your truest self.

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Return to the haunted house

I find the haunted house from my childhood and remember how we’d all been too scared to enter it, except for Anna…

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The DM’Terview: Super help for kids coping with the Pandemic!

Emma Cahill, Irish author and primary school teacher, discusses her ‘Under the Mask’ books that help children cope with difficult emotions including during the pandemic!

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DM’terview with Olivia Hope: The Waiting Game

Olivia Hope, kidlit author, does a DM chat on coping with the writing waiting game & on overcoming the particular challenges of writing in 2020.

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Goddamn it, I love my kids

Every time we get angry at our kids, what we really want to shout is, ‘Why are you making me feel like this? I hate feeling like this!’

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I am definitely not recommending this.

This ridiculously complicated game doesn’t matter. What matters is what it does for me in these crazy times..

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(This is not) GET RICH QUICK WRITING ADVICE!

August 2018 – This is not even writing advice. It’s a bit weird really. It’s the stories I tell myself.

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