Confessions of a serial blogger & budding author
A productive day today
Today is ANZAC Day here in Australia. It is the day we remember those who fought and died in wars. It is also a public holiday.
I had been hoping to go to a dawn service this year, but it didn’t happen. Instead we watched the Dawn Service from Gallipoli and a place in France (I can never remember how to spell it). [Read more...]
Chapter Book Challenge 2013
It’s now the 11th of March and a third of the way through the Chapter Book Challenge, also known as ChaBooCha. I thought I’d do an update to let you know how it’s going.
March began with an idea for a story, one that was completely different than the one I had been planning! Initially, I thought I’d be working on my Jimmy James story, however I have since been working on something else. It’s the story of Sam and is (very) loosely based on my own experiences as a child. [Read more...]
Read out loud
This evening, I sat down to work on my first manuscript to get it ready for editing and submission. I printed it out to review as I find it a lot easier to edit with a pencil. It also helps me to have a change of scene, getting away from the computer screen, to give me a fresh perspective on the words in front of me. [Read more...]
Time for a blog party!
Wow, it’s December and month 12 of the 12×12 in 12 challenge. It’s time to PARTY! You may remember the blog party 6 months ago – if not, check out my post here - now it’s time to celebrate the end of this years challenge.
This past 6 months has been harder than the first 6 months, mostly due to my health, however I have still managed to write 12 picture book manuscripts this year!! Woo Hoo! Most of this is because there are some months where I wrote more than one manuscript. [Read more...]
Looking for action & adventure?
I’m finding an interesting issue with writing kids chapter books. In many ways, I’m writing books with my boys in mind, which is one of the reasons they read my manuscripts as I’m writing them.
Some people are suggesting that my stories need to be more exciting, have more action and adventure in them – good guys and bad guys, things like that. Many of the ideas I’ve come up with are simply gentle stories, there is not a lot of excitement in them, however my kids seem to be enjoying them. [Read more...]
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