Kick start your side hustles with a challenge or two! — I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get a little bit bored with doing the same thing over and over. It’s difficult to find the motivation to do it every day. Especially when it comes to side hustles, which, let’s face it, often mean doing iterations of the exact…

The stuff you didn’t know you needed to know about me — This is my about me page. In case you needed to know the random odd bits. Who wants to know the essentials? Boring! Let’s do the Unessentials! My name is Sarah and I live in the UK, in the North of England.

What have I been writing about recently? MARCH 2023 Tadah! An update! This is the post that I always forget to update…but no longer! Since I’ve only written a few posts in 2023 so far I thought I’d include them all here. After a few months away from the keyboard at the…

Create seamless patterns in record time! — There’s a new kid on the block- Repper! It’s an app that you can use to create repeat patterns. You upload a source file — e.g. your artwork, a photo, or just a file with a few shapes and different colours. Then you can play around and create some really…

The two things I want to focus on this month — This post is being written near the end of March. It’s official — that means I’m organised for once! With any luck, April will be just as organised and on point as I feel now! Here are my writing goals for April. Since I obviously feel the need to tell…

Turning a waffly ramble into something succinct — [Before I get into this article, I want to say something about it first. I’m going to write another version of this and link it here once I’ve finished it. The second version will be an edited, ‘polished’ version of this article. …

The house that I still dream about — Even though it’s been more than two decades since I last set foot in her house (and sadly never will again), I still dream of my Gran’s house. I always wake up feeling sad. Sad because I know I’ll never visit there again and because I know it looks completely…

Most importantly, get out of your comfort zone! — It doesn’t matter what kind of side hustle you have — at some point you need to write something, either for or about it! Here are a few ideas on how to elevate your written content with your side hustle in mind. 1. Use hashtags I remember when a friend first explained to…

Public lending rights An often-overlooked way you can make up to an extra £6,600 a year with your published book in the UK is through Public Lending Rights. That means you get paid when people borrow your book from public libraries! …