Reblogged from Writing Teen Novels: Why is it that some books you read linger in your heart and mind for the rest of your life, while you have trouble remembering much about another book only a few days later? It is because some books have characters that seem to leap off the page, vivid and alive. These … Continue reading »
CYA again
A year has gone past. Since when, you ask? Since I sat down to google writing conferences and found the CYA. There’s a little count down app on the side of this page that as I am writing this says ’20′ days to go. In reality I am visiting my mum on the way up … Continue reading »
PAST TENSE VS PRESENT TENSE IN WRITING – AN EXPERIMENT
Reblogged from Words from the Willow: In the previous post, I presented four basic grammatical constructions used in present- and past-tense narration. As you’ll see below, however, it’s not all that easy to write in what looks to be a consistent tense when the narration references something that happened in the past. I took the … Continue reading »
Re-blogged from Author Alden
I Want to Write Like… (A Guest Post by Cas Webb) As you may have noticed, there was no blog entry last week. While I’m gearing up for my trip to Odyssey Writing Workshop (and while I’m there toiling away), my schedule may be a little irregular. Posts will always go up on Wednesdays, but I may … Continue reading »
The Kemla Chapter Hunt
Hello, dear reader – *extends hand to shake yours* – Pleasure is all mine. You’ve navigated a bit of a maze so far, well done. *Ignites fireworks* ‘Kemla‘ was one of the first lengthy manuscripts I begun. The complete first draft was handwritten, in one of those A4 school notebooks, when I was fourteen. Every … Continue reading »
Kate Forsyth
I went to an Author talk today at our local library, which was amazing on its own because in all the years I have lived in narooma we have not ever had an author visit our library. Arriving early I sat down with a copy of Kate Forsyths latest book and eagerly googled her so … Continue reading »
Chapter Hunt Coming Soon
Reblogged from Life. Family. Magic: Hello all you lovely readers. Something amazing is in the works. We all want to know a bit more about Leon, and what on the goddesses earth he’s doing with Slave Traders! So I’m lining up a few blogs (feel free to leave me a comment if you want your … Continue reading »
NEW fantasy YA story out
Pun intended… the title of the book is NEW. I know I’m not very imaginative with my titles. The main character is Kemla, so the series is KEMLA and the theme in this book is new, new work, new love, new fears. So the book title is NEW. It’s available here: http://www.lifefamilymagic.wordpress.com And here’s the … Continue reading »
A dream I had
I had a dream last night and it’s been playing on my mind ever since. All day. It’s after lunch now and I am trying to edit my WIP, but this dream keeps popping into my mind. Very simply, for whatever reason, I was on the run with my two kids. Staying one step … Continue reading »
Fantasy Good Read
This is a little project of mine, something I have been working towards putting a chapter a week up for the last couple of Row80′s It’s fantasy, mostly PG with some adult content (but not in this chapter) http://lifefamilymagic.wordpress.com/ I value your feedback, feel free to leave comments Hows your weeks writing goals going?
