Avoiding the Sludge State, Using Feedback

My latest newsletter is out.

I commissioned some human art.

Fire Jays by Paul Humphreys, Inkycovers

A reminder

I have two novels out I am truly proud of. Our Child of the Stars and Our Child of Two Worlds. They are widely available including from me in the UK.

I have some Free Fiction on my website (Tab, free fiction). I also offer creative services – including MS assessment and media skills/confidence. (Tab, Services)

Bung me a question or comment. Post below or privately here. Is anyone interested in a Zoom chat on all things writing and fiction?

Sludge State

There’s a wonderful point in the creative life where you reach a flow state – maybe for minutes, maybe an hour, maybe a few days. In this state you write with ideas fizzing and the words (or worlds) flying onto the page.  It’s this state which means I could never write a book by hand, I could not write fast enough, and it would be illegible.

I think I have been in sludge state, where things move very slowly, and trying to speed up can just increase the resistance.

And I write about how to use feedback constructively.

Author: Stephen Cox

London PR consultant and interim, with 30 years experience across not for profit sector. Former Great Ormond Street Hospital/Chelsea and Westminster. Critically acclaimed novels Our Child of the Stars (2019), praised by Guardian, FT, Daily Mail and Grazia, and Our Child of Two Worlds (2022)

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