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  • Having a Plan!

    Having a Plan!

    5th November 2015 It’s now been a year and a half since I started taking my art seriously, and by that I mean painting more, sketching more, showing people what I am working on and the finished product. It has also meant setting up an Etsy shop, putting my writing on one side (in my…

  • 30th September 2014

    Happiness is… It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, in fact, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything (not including a diary, which I’ve written since I was fourteen and notes on various English essays, which don’t count!) I’ve been spending a lot more of my free time on my paintings, a thing I…

  • 16th April 2014

    The Spaces In-between It’s almost Easter, the sun is shining and I am currently in a position very familiar to writers everywhere … I am in the space in-between – in-between my manuscripts being submitted and beginning again. Yes, my latest projects have flown the nest! The Box of Dreams, a fantasy/adventure for 9-12s, which I started…

  • 14th March 2014

    The Jitters! I am currently very close, very very close, to submitting, so I have the jitters. I always get the jitters at such times, and the jitters lead me to procrastinate and stick my proverbial head in the proverbial sand. So I have been sitting on my final alterations to the first three chapters of…

  • 20th January 2014

    A Full tin of Quality Street It came to me the other day, two thirds of the way through my children’s novel, fourth draft, that my story was beginning to feel like a full tin of Quality Street, bursting with colour and flavour, instead of a third full tin with left over Strawberry Delights and…