A blog to keep me honest, motivated, and enthused about writing and reading, plus confessions on a serious addiction to coffee, notebooks and vintage typewriters.
A friend asked me the other day - after we lamented the sheer hard graft of the story process - if I had heard of the 'Snowflake Method'. She explained it as simply as this: Using one sentence, summarise your story. Then take a section of that sentence, and write a paragraph. Then another. Write... Continue Reading →
Remington Model 5TTypewriters. What magnificent, intricate machines. My own love affair must have started with an old dusty Remington, a playtoy for me and Alisha when we were children. I wonder where it came from? Then there’s that scene in the movie ‘Annie’, with Grace Farrell (Daddy Warbucks' secretary), dancing in his busy office with... Continue Reading →
Hello dear reader! It has been too long since I last posted, with no real excuse but for life just getting in the way. But do not be alarmed, for I have still been working hard behind the scenes. The local libraries have been furnishing dusty reference books from their basements, and I in... Continue Reading →
Welcome to our summer holiday. Three weeks of bliss, caravanning in a campsite beach-side at Hahei in the Coromandel. An idyllic part of NZ’s coast. Paradise. And here is Belladonna, our little snail shell.Can a writer have a better position? Peace and playground chatter, quiet solitude and birdsong, and a vast variety of peoples from... Continue Reading →
Research, Research, Research Well, I've been having a bit of fun digging up some books for my novel idea from the deep dark recesses of the local libraries. This is the exciting part for me, delving into a subject that interests me, the history, the images, the culture of the topic at hand. But there... Continue Reading →
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