I think it’s strange that my last post talked about time being lost and moments later I’m writing a post called The Time Twister. Maybe the book I’m about to review twisted my time in real life.
Anyway, I finished reading Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red [...]

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Where do the hours go? In fact, where do the days go? I can’t believe another week has flown by.
In that time, I did little writing. I won’t waste your time or mine with excuses. I didn’t write. There are no excuses. However, yesterday morning, I decided to make [...]

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I’ve been tagged by Sherry. Four things, in these categories, should have been easy to list, but weren’t. This meme reinforces how boring I am.
Four Jobs I’ve Had:
1. Teller
2. Bank Officer
3. Advertising Assistant
4. Secretary
Four Movies I Can Watch Over And Over:
1. Grease
2. Terminator
3. Titantic
4. Gone With the Wind.
I’m a soppy [...]

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What can I say, I spent a week planning one story only to find it was too much too soon and I didn’t feel ready to write it (as in it was pure SF and I’ve never written SF before). Another story idea was thrown at me and after only a few hours of [...]

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I’m way out of my depth with this new short story. I feel like I’m standing in the middle of a football field and everyone is bombarding with … well, anything they can get their hands on … it’s painful.
Writing about aliens on another planet meant I, the author, had to have some [...]

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Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours roaming the internet looking for inspiration for the short story I need to write within the next two months. It’s amazing what can be found this way. And it’s even more amazing what a glimpse of an image or a fragmented sentence might produce in the [...]

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Yesterday, I emailed a friend and said, “I’m having one of those ‘why do I bother’ phases.” I go through this phase at least once a year. It’s nothing serious. I just start doubting my ability and my reasons for writing. Within a few days, a week at the most, I’m [...]

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I stole this meme from Sherry, who stole it from another friend.
Below, I will tell you six facts. Five of them are true, but one of them is a big, fat lie. Can you tell which one? Take a guess and leave a comment, I’ll reveal the answer in a [...]

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This weekend I wrote the introduction to my non-fiction project – Suicide: A Mother’s Story. I want the first paragraph to be quite powerful. It has to grab the reader and pull them right in (this is essential for any reader, but especially so if the reader is an editor of a [...]

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Here are a couple of links for children’s markets. The first is for Children’s Book Publishers and the second is for Children’s Magazine Publishers.
Both the links lead to the same website, but I feel it’s important to link to both pages (or one might get overlooked).
Be sure to read the comments left [...]

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