It’s been a while but I have a finished manuscript! I’m so fond of my main character, Edith Wickett, I really want others to get to know her too. The publishing world has changed a lot since my last novel came out and I’m busy exploring the different opportunities there are now for sharing work … Continue reading What next?
Category: Writing Journey
My journey to being a published author and, following a career break in writing, the journey back to sharing my work.
Like a lot of people, my plans had to change as a result of the pandemic. Within less than a year, I have moved 3 times: from the south coast with the future I imagined brought to an abrupt end. I was lucky to stay with a friend close to the hills in the Lake … Continue reading The sea and the hills – a pandemic journey
Writing this feels like meeting up with a friend I haven’t seen for a few years and throwing into an evening’s catch-up everything that has happened in the intervening time! It’s been one of those challenging periods, years of one big life challenge after another, of learning to let go in order to make new … Continue reading Catching up and looking forward
If I’m asked what advice I would give to an aspiring writer, I usually say read, read as much as you can: anything and everything! I also might mention that I find re-reading books useful too. A re-read of a book you love, looking closer at what it is that appeals about the work and … Continue reading Feedback advice
I have always loved reading. When I was growing up, I would be the first one awake– early – getting stuck into a book. All those stories! All those different characters going through all kinds of experiences, living all kinds of lives! I studied French and German at university, not English, thinking that was sensible, … Continue reading It all started with reading
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