Category: Blog
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6th January 2011
The Plot Planner I’ve mentioned my plot planner in one or two posts now and it’s generated a bit of interest, curiosity and intrigue among other writers, and, apparently, some squinting as certain tweeps (you know who you are) have attempted to work out, from my last post, what the heck I was up to! …
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30th December
The Book of 2012! I can’t believe 2012 is almost here – where did 2011 go? I remember, as a child, my mum saying how time flew as you got older. It seems such a bizarre concept when you’re young, that the speed of time could vary according to your age. Those six week summers seemed more…
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28th December
The Santa Box You know when you have an idea, and it grows, and then it becomes reality? (a bit like writing a book as it happens), well, that’s what happened with The Santa Box. It started with a bit of crazy twitter chatter between myself and my lovely, now dear friend, Julia Martin http://twitter.com/wordsxo…
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23rd December
A Santa with a wobbly nose? Twiglets? Whatever next? Those Christmas traditions – we love them and we hate them, don’t we? There are the sparkly ones, the ones of our choosing, the ones we inherited and hung on to because they were our favourites, and the ones we started ourselves. Then there are the grotty ones,…
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16th December
The Jewish Quarter When I think about what sparks my writing and what sparks other people’s, it’s astonishing how diverse the influences are. I often find that there are so many triggers that I end up with more ideas and notes in notepads and scribbled on to random bits of paper, than time to explore them. I’m sure a…
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9th December
Taking the plunge I’ve thought quite a lot about how I became a writer, because it wasn’t something I aspired to be for a long time. I had quite a lot of jobs, not loads, but a few. After leaving school, I worked in a hospital preparing microfiche and locating medical records. It was pretty soul destroying. Then…
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2nd December
A Lorra Crazy Letters If you read my post of 4th November on the launch of Grub’s Pups, you may have noticed that I referred to a letter that I read out to everyone. In fact, there were two of these – The Sunflower letter, and The Mushy Peas letter – and they form just…
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28th November
MOJO In a break from my normal Friday blogette… a bit of a spontaneous five minute poem, prompted by that post being unwell, and looking after other unwell ones, feeling, where the old mojo appears to have gone walk about, and also sparked by a twitter conversation. MOJO My mojo is a bran flake down the back of…
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25th November
The spaces we make As most of you will already know, we creative types / workers from home, quite often have to make do with what we have, don’t we? We carve our own spaces in our home environment, working around the rest of the family members in some cases, working out the things we most need, taking…
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19th November
Liebster Blog Award I’ve just been awarded my first blog award (tee hee) – isn’t it pretty? I was awarded this by YA writer Emma Pass, whose blog you can see here. So thank you very much Emma for this lovely award, so gratefully received. Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, and the award…