backstory

Hello there, I’m Nicola, a writer and creativity evangelist who is going to blow some fairy dust all over your Work in Progress so that writing becomes magically effortless.

Okay, so maybe I lied about the fairy dust. But while I may not be in possession of actual magic, I do know a thing or two about the tenacity it takes to be a published writer. I’ve got twenty years experience as a journalist, copywriter and writer of creative non-fiction, and I’m an award-nominated author, with two novels traditionally published with one of the Big 5 publishers. You can find my author page here.  And on the coaching side, I have  co-written a book about the common obstacles to writing, Seven Creative Gremlins, and I work as a manuscript reader and editor for Jericho Writers, TLC and Faber Academy.

Over the years, my own experience of writing stories has lead to the firm conclusion that the only way to write them is to not stop writing. And yet. Writing just seems to give us SO many great reasons to quit, from frustrations at our perceived lack of ability to not knowing what to do next, to comparisons with others, to time constraints, to money worries, to how, at the end of the day, it’s just so much easier to flop on the sofa and watch Netflix in your pants. So. This site dedicated entirely to helping you NOT TO STOP WRITING. As Einstein said,  “You never fail until you stop trying.”  The answer then, clearly, is to become UNSTOPPABLE. Are you in?