Antonia Bernardin

For those who are new, I have had an idea for a book since forever, it’s all mapped out, I just need to bloody write it.

At the start of last year I decided to try doing a little writing challenge, which was going really well until it wasn’t… I burnt the fuck out. I work full time, run this blog, a podcast, exercise, have a partner and somehow also see my friends.

I just don’t know how to find the time.

And, because I work in marketing, I am blessed with having a job in which I get to be creative and for which I am doing some kind of writing, in one form or another, almost every day. So creatively, there aren’t many spoons left sometimes.

This year I was also on my way to passing my driving test (which I did!) and I was made redundant.

Basically, it’s been a busy fucking year and I haven’t written since March. To be honest, I haven’t really felt like it.

So those are my current blockers: time and desire to write.

What is my solution for 2024?

1. Get back into the routine of bulk scheduling this blog, so it doesn’t take up the few evenings that are free.
2. Do more creative things that I don’t view as a kind of ‘work’, like I do with this blog and the podcast.
3. The writing goal for 2024 is just to write in my story once a week, there is no word count, or time goal. I just need to fucking do it. I have the kind of mind that once I am doing, it’s easier to keep doing.

So yeah, that is where we are at, you would think that since it’s been my longest serving dream to be a published author, I would find the time or find a way but I honestly never want writing to become something I hate, which it would have been if I had forced it last year.

We’ll see how it goes!

Here are the extracts from my ‘big idea’ that I have already posted:

Opening Scene

Scene when she wakes up after the big opening scene

Random scene between my MC’s (also my favourite scene I’ve written so far)

Second random scene, with a little bit of the ‘who hurt you trope’ with a twist

Or, you can find my ‘Prompt Project’ posts, where I write a random little story based off a writing prompt.