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Blog postI’m old.
I say that not to garner sympathy but to declare access to eras forgotten or unknown to most. Here I sit in this year’s annual writers’ conference auditorium, packed with emerging authors eager to gorge on pearls of wisdom tossed out by the floodlit elite. Faces within the audience are mostly young, fresh-faced and optimistic. I close my eyes while we await the tardy guest speakers to take to the stage and I remember my early foray into writing. For a moment, I am t -
Blog postIn the heady era of political correctness, we are often left wondering ‘should I say that?‘ or ‘is it up to me to tell this story?‘ I have sat back and watched heated arguments of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation fire flaming arrows across the demarcation lines of territorial boundaries. The net effect of which, leaves an author’s quill trembling with trepidation for fear of insulting and encroaching on storylines that ought to be out-of-bounds for them to depict.
I can se -
Blog postScene-by-scene we record the comings and goings of the imaginary friends stomping, scuttling and tip-toeing around inside our head. Whether you be a plotter and zeroing in on the scene for today’s attention, or Pantser and letting the mind wander and lead – we all take that journey inside our imagination and allow our fingers to tap away at the keyboard to paint the vivid adventures that we have conjured.
In most cases, this journey involves a clearly defined cast of antagonists, prot -
Blog postLast week I had a little milestone – completing the revised draft of Book 1. I finally got to write – ‘the end’ (although I won’t include those words in the released version). Woohooo,’ I said to myself in the solitary confines of the Writers’ Studio. Champagne would have been called for. Instead, I went downstairs and fixed myself a hot mug of milo.
With the focus on the past year on living, breathing and writing all about the characters and adventures of the first generation, t -
Blog postWe all have them – areas of discomfort that even talking about them makes us squirm – much less write them down on paper for all read and draw judgement. These escritorial ( I think I made that word up) blindspots are the pages that we skirt around, skim over and fail to tackle with any serious consideration. They remain on the page, half written, trite, vapid and vague – taunting us to revisit and make the text worthy of inclusion in the book. Their constant reminder – that these are i
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Blog postMy writing began in October of 2016. Of course, I have been writing long before that but not of any serious nature. It was on my birthday in that year that I decided to start a book called ‘Generations‘. Well, in the first six months, the words just fell out of me, and I amassed a decent amount of words on the page – 100K or more. Looking back on those early days, the words I wrote boarded on the putrid and I am thankful that I didn’t rush out and release those first drafts. The book I had in
