https://www.pennywincerwrites.com/blog daily 0.75 2018-05-04 https://www.pennywincerwrites.com/index daily 1.0 2025-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c16814c7e3c3a927a7620ae/731c8bd8-0f72-4776-a16d-179dc7e580a4/20230921_Penny+Wincer_114.jpg Index - Penny Wincer- Author and Book Coach Penny is an author, freelance writer and non-fiction book coach based in London. She is the author of Home Matters: How our homes shape us, and we shape them and Tender:The imperfect Art of Caring . Penny hosts the podcast Not Too Busy To Write https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c16814c7e3c3a927a7620ae/252e145f-f6c0-4b91-a84c-7e8bb5e8a3ce/20170625_PW_9054_web.jpg Index - Writers…. We were never mean’t to do this alone…. 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