Protected: ‘Secretly’ Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (1814)

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (CRC#13)

Three things I didn't know about this book before I started reading: It is written by two authors...both American......as a series of letters I've seen the film and I loved it. I loved the period detail and the characters and the bitter sweet story, so I was quite looking forward to reading the novel. 1946, …

Feedback

Photo by Akil Mazumder on Pexels.com So, after a nail biting few days, I received feedback for my short Western from two people. Different types of feedback, but both invaluable and food for thought. The first comments came in from a published author who has written mostly about various music genres and has also got …

Try try again

I've had the seed of a book idea bouncing around for a few weeks now. I'd get so far with an idea and then it would turn into a deadend. The ideas were not flowing. I want to write a western novella and have been trying to work out the storyline. A Western you say? …

Procrastination

In the spirit of thinking about the writing process and planning I decided to press on with another book idea. Ordinarily all of this creativity shouldn't be discouraged, surely? The trouble is I have my first project still lurking in the background. I have left the characters in limbo. I can hear their whispers, wondering …

Planning Tools

I wrote a book. I wrote a book and then scrapped it. From the ashes of that book I wrote another. The difference between book 1 and book 2 was a plan. You'd think that planning wouldn't be such a novel idea seeing as it's something I implore my students do on an almost weekly …

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton