I'm changing it up a bit today to reflect on my week long writing road trip. We traveled 2400 kms in 7 days and enjoyed wildlife, magnificent scenery as well as writing and reading time. My plan was to cover these projects while on this retreat. Continue with my...
Firstly, thank you to all my followers, who make this blog so worthwhile and fun to write. Your interactions and likes mean so much to me. As a writing community we need to support, encourage and connect with each other. Our writing space, be it a home office, a...
Does writing energize or exhaust you? Both. To not write, dismays and distracts me. Writing is like lancing a wound. It’s painful but with writing, comes release. And relief! I often worry there’s no story there at all, so once I realize there is, I feel a great deal...
Writing: Well my creative writing took a backseat yet again but I did manage the update my ghost writing project and completed my conference presentation so feel pleased there are both completed. I am co-hosting the senior residence writing group on Thursday so can...
Writing: Unfortunately my creative writing has taken a backseat this last week while I compiled a schedule, contact sheet and action requirements for the Heritage Day my Board and another organization are holding in June. In all I spent seven hours going through...
Writing: Maybe it's naughty but I submitted few pages of another manuscript to our current Writer in Residence over the weekend. This time it was the manuscript I am currently working on, The Twesome Loop . A romance with a touch of erotica and a reincarnation twist....
We all tread this writing journey with a certain amount of trepidation. Even the most successful authors have concerns. Will my novel be good enough? Is the story strong? Will I get good reviews? Have I written my best? Is there another novel inside me? It is human...
I read this article concerning 'lost' stories from Truman Capote with interest. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/books/lost-stories-by-capote-are-published.html?_r=0 I wonder how many other authors or poets have work stuffed into the back of drawers, filed away in...
Our creativity can be inspired from the smallest word to a globally known news worthy article. I was in the grip of such an idea this weekend. It formed from the merging of several obscure news items into a cohesive story and took 'root' in my mind. Once I began...