Some recent writing gems on fact in fiction, inspiration and writing a story: I loved the post, Making True Fiction, from Shanna Germain. It contemplates how true the facts need to be in fiction and how…
I only have about 16 posts so far being a fairly newbie blogger but what the hell, I am jumping in to the 7 link challenge from Darren Rowse at problogger. I love a chance to…
I write poetry – true confession. A rarefied art if ever there was one and you wonder why you do it, what calls you, why it defines you, this thing you are so passionate about but hardly…
Some gems shining a little light this week. I loved Justine Lee Musk’s recent post on Tribal Writer on ‘5 ways to put more ‘soul’ into your writing’ . Justine reflects on what makes writing invoke an…
My family has had a traumatic time over the past years. My younger brother died very tragically in November 2007. It was the saddest day and life was never the same. My father then died suddenly in…
Some gems shining a little light this week: I absolutely loved Chris Guillebeau’s recent post, ‘Free Advice’. Talk about challenging things you generally accept without thinking and turning them on their head! This post does this…