Writing: My week and weekend were a mixed bag of chores, bed assembly, time with my daughter and working on the freelance project of ghost writing a business ebook but I have not really touched my newest YA story, apart from a couple of short paragraphs. It will come...
This week includes my writing group's sharing meeting on Tuesday, I always look forward to connecting with other members and sharing. I have several writing tip sheets to give out this week and will have to create a writing prompt to start the meeting off. As I am...
Writing: It may be a day late but I hope you enjoy this Halloween themed story. I wrote it 3 April 2011, when my writing career was starting. A Glimpse Through a Window It started with a glimpse out of the corner of her eye. A movement passing the opened window but...
Firstly, a nice surprise for me this morning! Your blog, Mandy Eve-Barnett's Official Blog, appears to be getting more traffic than usual! 59 hourly views - 2 hourly views on average. A spike in your stats. After such a busy weekend, with two author readings and...
My main concentration over the past week and into this week has been my ghost writing project. Fueled with 'technical jargon' from my client, I have been incorporating it into the story. The characters are taking shape and after this evening, I will send the revisions...
I have a couple of events coming up this Saturday - one in a local book store - Star Wars themed and then an author reading later in the afternoon - Halloween themed. I have not decided which story I will relay quite yet. It depends on the audience. If there are a...
Writing: Writing has been spasmodic this past week but I have accomplished several 'to do' items on my list. I have increased the word count on my YA novella, which now has the new title of Creature Hunt on Planet Toaria. The word count stands at 24,491 as of today. I...
Apart from my regular meeting with a freelance client this week and continuing with the writing involved, I will hopefully have time to relax after last week's insane round of events. Downtime is important for us all to refresh and center our minds. What have you got...
Writing: As most of you know I take advantage of any opportunity to write. On Monday, I wrote several chapter summaries and two whole chapters for my ghost writing project. Great you say - however my location was rather usual - in the waiting area of Canadian Tire -...