Confessions of a serial blogger & budding author
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...]
Flash fiction pieces done
I’m a bit excited right now. I have submitted my flash fiction fractured fairy tales for the Chapter Book Challenge anthology. I have made the May 1 deadline with a few days to spare.
The fact that I’ve finished the pieces and submitted the drafts before the cut off is amazing right now as life has been busy with work, kids and editing my chapter book.
I suppose that when this book is published, I’ll no longer be able to consider myself a pre-published author and will have to update my website and bio.
I'm a pre-published author of picture books, chapter books, short stories and more.
Come and share my journey to be a published author.
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