Tag: writing
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New Year’s Greetings!
2nd January 2024 Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a lovely and relaxing Christmas. As someone who likes to be in tune with the seasons, the Christmas period, for me, is about hunkering down, catching up on sleep, watching old films, doing jigsaws, spending time with friends and family… and yes, eating…
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Family Stories
13th September 2023 I am in the final edits of my current adult novel, The Photograph Album, although I’m pretty sure I said this a few weeks ago too! The fact that I am still editing is thanks to my wonderful beta readers who have given me such incredible and helpful suggestions and feedback. As…
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
11th August 2023 It’s been five years since I’ve blogged and a lot has happened in that time. I like changes though. Obviously, not all change feels good, but it can mean movement, growth, re-assessing and sometimes taking time out, which is kind of what I did. Creatively though, I’ve still been active. I learnt…
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DM World Culture Project
16th January 2018 A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would get involved in a co-produced World Collections project run by Derby Museums. The basic premise was to produce a piece of writing from a collection of words gathered by the local community – words that were felt to unite everyone across the…
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Do You Know Your Needs?
3rd June 2016 I haven’t blogged for a while, but this topic came up in conversation yesterday, and it’s something which has been on my mind recently. We’re brought up to share, to be with others, to socialise, to fit in, to obey rules about what we can and cannot do and that becomes so…
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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…
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5th May 2014
The Grand Blog Tour! Firstly, I’d like to thank Jenny Alexander for inviting me to take part in the Grand Blog Tour this week. I’ve been following Jenny’s blog post for a couple of years – it’s one that I never fail to read as I find her posts thought-provoking and her observations inciteful. So, here’s…
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30th April 2014
A Surprising and Sparkly New Idea As those of you who read my last blog post here will know, my latest two children’s manuscripts have gone out into the big wide world of agents and I have been filling my time with lots of other things and giving the grey matter a bit of a…
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19th December 2013
An interview with Jenny Alexander One of the great things about writing in the 21st century is the chance it gives we writers to interact with other writers. Writing can be a fairly solitary experience, and social networking has really opened this out, allowing writers to seek advice from, and inspire, one another, and just generally witter…
