Miss Saigon and the Unreliable Narrator
I’ve listened to and loved Miss Saigon for about twenty years. I know every word and I identify with the characters – well, as much as I can without actually being an American GI or a Vietnamese...
View ArticleOld Friends
So, in case by some chance you missed it, my first interview on In the Wishing Chair went live at the weekend, and I’ve recorded a few more interviews since. I’ve had some lovely feedback, so many...
View ArticleExploding Ebooks
Having just read yet another diatribe about ebooks – along the lines of real books smell lovely and feel lovely and I love secondhand bookshops and is the real book dead? I don’t think so - I went...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Writing Mum
5am. Get up with children. Stagger to sofa and plan to be really disciplined and open laptop. As soon as I’ve woken up a bit. 6am. Wake up on sofa; rub crusted drool off chin and rub crayon off walls....
View ArticleBulletin
Well, well. It’s been a while *guilty look*. Sometimes life just gets in the way and you need to focus on priorities. Lately I’ve had to deal with some head stuff and make sure I kept myself and my...
View ArticleWrite A Great Synopsis
2012 is the year I finally finish off my two ongoing WIPS, then begin the ordeal of putting together a submission package and sending it all off. With that in mind, it’s perfect timing that I’m helping...
View ArticleFINISHED
This morning I finished my first ever draft of a novel. A WHOLE novel. What I wrote. Me. Ahem. I know that for real, proper authors this isn’t a big deal – and maybe it shouldn’t be such a big deal?...
View ArticleFailure & Finishing
Uh oh. That was a bad start to the A-Z Challenge, wasn’t it? When I realised I’d missed C, I thought I’d combine it with D in a post. Then I didn’t get to do one for D either so I thought I’d try...
View ArticleNewcastle Writing Conference 2015: Do It Yourself Part One.
I went to my first every writing conference at the weekend – Newcastle Writing Conference, arranged by New Writing North at Northumbria University. I jumped at the chance to go because the lineup was...
View ArticleOn rediscovering creativity
Life can get in the way of things, things that are really quite important. Creativity can be one of the first things to go; when you’re tired or stressed, or in pain, or suffering. It seems frivolous....
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