writer and home-maker
So at the beginning of the year I set myself some goals, and now we are halfway through the year it's a good time to look back and see how I'm doing on those. My goals for 2018 were: focus on writing improve daily routines look after me talk to friends First, writing. Well, that's... Continue Reading →
I have just published a Facebook Page for me as an author. I have been playing around with doing this for a while, and today actually pressed publish on it. This is the next step for me taking myself an an author seriously and trying to build up an audience before a potential 2019 publication... Continue Reading →
Here is a guest post from Katharine Grubb of 10 Minute Novelists all about their conference in the summer. It sounds great, so if you're thinking about it book quickly before the tickets sell out! ***** In this saturated market, you can’t afford to be a mediocre writer. For most of us, it’s not enough... Continue Reading →
I wrote a short story for the Sci-Fi London Festival 48 hour flash fiction challenge. I was given a title and a line of dialogue and had to come up with a 2000 word limit. Below is what I wrote - I haven't edited it since I submitted it, so I know there are some... Continue Reading →
The blog challenge was fun. I enjoyed finding words to fit each letter. As I was doing CampNaNo in April too I actually wrote all of the posts in mid-March and scheduled them in advance. This meant that I didn't have to remember to write them everyday. The downside of this was that I wasn't so engaged with... Continue Reading →
I didn't win. But it showed me how much I can write. Though writing fast became my focus, not writing well. I know there are things I will have to edit because I didn't stop to check or look things up. But in a month I wrote over half of a novel. It's so much... Continue Reading →
Z is for zeker, zeggen and zien. Zeker means certainly and is often used as a one word answer, or two words with yes first! Zeggen is to say and zien is to see. These are two verbs that are irregular and I often get their past tenses confused. Zaggen is saw and zeiden is... Continue Reading →
The Dutch more commonly use the dipthong IJ instead of Y. In fact as rocket boy learns to write he will be taught to write what we would recognise as a small y, but puts dots on top of both parts to make it an ij, and that's the 25th letter of the alphabet. And... Continue Reading →
X is another word that isn't often used as an initial letter in Dutch.
