Sarah

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My favourite reads of 2025.

~Book Lovers by Emily Henry
~The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
~The Burning by Laura Bates
~The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
~Vox by Christina Dalcher
~Remarkably Bright Creature by Shelby Van Pelt

#booksreadin2025 #favouritereads

Love that! Thanks Kathy!

Where did that last month go? That means it’s been that long since I worked on my novel. Oops. Tips for getting back into it?

Eek! I did it! I submitted a short story to a competition 🙈

Onwards to the next one!

hahahahaah love it!

The characters in my novel:

1. A paramedic who tries to save everyone.
2. A spouse at the end of their tether.
3. A crew mate with older sibling vibes.
4. A best friend who knows death is inevitable.
5. And Death, the force that brings this group of people all together.

Any guesses on who’s who?

Call me complex, but I love reading this kind of feedback on my novel.

A story that evokes such a strong sense of feeling is always the goal, right?

I’m all good right now, thanks!

Picture of top half of a woman’s face where only her nose, eyes framed by glasses and purple hair is visible.

I went down the beta reader feedback rabbit hole and survived! Actually, it’s been an incredibly enlightening process. Now I just have to figure out how to edit-slash-rewrite this novel with those comments in mind!

Why You Shouldn’t Want Me to Save Them What really happens when life-saving takes place.

Been a bit slow on the writing front of late. So, I'm moving some old pieces from Medium over to Substack. Here's one of those...

open.substack.com/pub/sarahway...

Six Words With a thousand more laying between the lines.

I finally wrote a thing! Started on a bit of a whim a few weeks ago, finished in a jet lagged haze just now... here's the story of how we ended up moving to Canada.

open.substack.com/pub/sarahway...

I haven’t felt much like writing in the last few months. Health stuff. Work stuff. Home stuff. It’s all taken centre stage. Buuuuut the tingle is back. Now I just need to start. How do you get going again after a no writing period?

Thank you to you and Michal for the opportunity to chat about our experiences of moving from the UK to Canada!

5 Universal Truths About Being a Paramedic A (mostly) lighthearted look at what being a paramedic is really all about.

Popped another old piece over onto Substack today. This one was a kind of fun piece about what it's really like to be a paramedic... sarahwayte.substack.com/p/5-universa...

How a Superhero's Cape Works How people perceive a lifesaver's uniform

Slowly moving old pieces from Medium across to Substack. This is the first of them:

open.substack.com/pub/sarahway...

And just like that... it's gone.

The novel is finally out with the beta readers. Time to pause thinking about that story for now and start dabbling with the next one!

Currently reading:

The Right to Write by Julia Camera (still!)
Bountiful Magic by Iris Beaglehole
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Thoughts on Moving to Canada (Part 1) Looking back, I'm not sure I'd still make the move now. So, how did we manage it the first time?

My latest post is up on Substack. Thoughts on my experiences moving from Europe to Canada...

sarahwayte.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

From Nothing to Something Why we need to stop assuming our stories are not very interesting to listen to

If you’ve ever thought no one would be interested in your stories, read this (because you’re wrong): sarahwayte.substack.com/p/from-nothi...

Time to buy banned books. 📚💙

Currently reading:

Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Powerful Publicity Prescription by Lilian Sue
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron

Connect with me on StoryGraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/sara...

🤣 (just gonna stick to an emoji response because I just read back that last post and found all the typos… it’s still early)

I have to say I did enjoy that book 🤣 But I’m with you on reading a book everyone is raving about and wondering why. There a long list of popular favourites I’ve been left shaping my head in wonder at. Each to their own!

Seems legit.

Hey! Fellow copywriter! 👋🏻 Based in BC ☺️

Excited to be joining this open house this evening! @twssfu.bsky.social

I used to painfully push through reading every book I’d started, even when I wasn’t enjoying it. And then I realised I didn’t have to do that. I could just stop and move on to the next one.

Life’s too damn short to be stuck reading a book you hate. I’m so much happier for it!

From Nothing to Something Why we need to stop assuming our stories are not very interesting to listen to

If you’ve ever thought no one would be interested in your stories, read this (because you’re wrong): sarahwayte.substack.com/p/from-nothi...