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Last night, I made my way to London Town for the Romantic Novelists' Association Awards as my novel The Second Love Of My Life was on the shortlist for the Contemporary Romance award. Here are all the books in my category: The professional photos with the other nominees: Obligatory pre-event selfie: … Continue reading The RoNA awards 2017
I was wondering what to post next in my Year Of Positivity series when it was announced that my debut novel The Second Love Of My Life has been shortlisted for an award! It is shortlisted for The 2017 Contemporary Romantic Novel Award by The Romantic Novelists Association. Here's the announcement in The Bookseller: … Continue reading Celebrating the small (and the big!)
This year I decided my main New Year's resolution would be to be more positive (https://victoria-writes.com/2017/01/05/the-year-of-positivity/) so I've been thinking since about the ways I can do this. It's not easy to always be positive. Life gets in the way. I am still battling my overactive thyroid and some days it's hard not to… Continue reading Focusing on Goals
I keep seeing memes online about the disaster that has been 2016. It really has felt like a year of ups and downs across the world. It seems a lot of us are looking forward to rolling over into the New Year soon. This year my debut novel was published and I have been… Continue reading Storytellers
This blog has been rather neglected of late. The past couple of months I've been feeling poorly and one thing that's been getting me down has been shoulder and neck pain. And I think the culprit is writing. I have been a naughty writer - sitting at the dining room table or on the sofa… Continue reading Becoming a sensible writer
Possibly one of the most famous quotes on writing and fairly typical. Whenever I search for quotes on writing it seems that we are supposed to find writing painful, torturous and impossible. We are meant to consume copious amounts of coffee and alcohol. We are meant to shut out the world and sit in… Continue reading A Writer’s Life
I finished writing my new book this week. I took a photo of the words "the end" to celebrate this fact but, of course, this was a complete lie. Until a book appears on the shelves, there will be constant editing, tweaking and proof-reading to try to make it the best it can be.… Continue reading “The End”
This week, I started writing a new book. The idea has been brewing for a little bit and I was keen to start getting it down on paper. It turned out I was really keen as I've managed to write 20,000 words in two days - 10,000 each day. When I revealed my word count… Continue reading How to write 10,000 words in a day
The question I keep being asked is "how does it feel now that your book is published?" So I am going to attempt to put the feeling into words. It's exciting and wonderful. It's a dream come true. It's terrifying. It's nerve wracking. It's surreal. It's like pulling out your heart and sticking it on… Continue reading On being published
Time for a new video on my YouTube channel! Today I'm taking about my writing tips. I keep being asked for them so I thought it would be fun to film me talking through my top five tips. 1 - Write your way 2 - Read 3 - Keep going 4 - Get feedback… Continue reading Top Five Writing Tips
Victoria Walters 