Confessions of a serial blogger & budding author
Support authors with no money
I’ve seen a few discussions lately from people who want to support their favourite authors, however they don’t have the money to buy books. I know that I’m often in the same situation. As much as I love books, I can’t always afford to own them.
Here are a few ideas that can help you support your favourite authors when you don’t have the money to buy books: [Read more...]
Adjusting the gender balance
I’m in the editing phase for Sam’s Solution, taking into consideration the different feedback I’ve received from both critique partners and a manuscript critique.
One of the comments I received was that there weren’t enough boys in the story. Even though it’s sent in a co-educational primary school, boys don’t feature much in the story. I’m now working out how best to address this imbalance. [Read more...]
What’s your perspective?
I’ve had a couple of manuscript assessments lately for the same story, as well as feedback from critique partners. It’s interesting looking at their comments and thinking about the perspective their comments come from.
Different comments have been on different aspects of the story, and this comes for most stories I’ve written. Whenever I receive feedback, I try and keep this in mind. [Read more...]
Writers Group fun
We’ve just got home from a fantastic night at the Monash Writers Group (hi to any members of the group stopping by). Tonight we split up into groups – one looking at script writing and the other looking at memoir. I was in the latter group.
One thing that I have wanted to do for a long time is to share my journey with post and ante natal depression. There are so many insights that come with hind sight that I think it may be useful to other women. I have picked up some great tips to get started. [Read more...]
Why is it important to remember?
I’ve had a break from writing for a few days, but my imagination has been running wild! I’ve been revisiting some former manuscripts, including Jimmy James.
One of the comments I have received in the past has been:
Why would he go on his adventures? [Read more...]
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