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Writing
As my daughter would say, LOL!
I found this… I had such high hopes of a writer’s life, but real life interfered; however, a successful career, a very happy marriage and two children later, here I am… a writer!
MoreThe Silver Quill Blogger Award
First of all I’d like to thank Jeremy for nominating me for this award; I really appreciate it! Have a look at Jeremy’s page – you’ll love his poems and his photos: http://thesandcounty.wordpress.com/ So here goes: The rules for this award: If you choose to accept, are to paste the logo of this award on the top of your post. […]
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Telling the tale… then writing it down
Before I could write, I told stories, first to myself then to my sister; when I became a teacher, story telling became an intrinsic and vital part of my way of delivering the goods. Story telling in my teaching wasn’t just going through something in a text book, I would recount tales of my […]
MoreCamel Wood
Camel Wood is an amalgam of many woods and woodlands and forests I’ve walked through. It is a large area of old woodland which exists only in my imagination but is so vivid and believable that it is easy to describe it when I write. Those of you who have read my novel ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ will know what […]
MoreStep away from your character! Step away!
Busy editing ‘Loving Judah’ which I wrote several years ago and I can now see that when I wrote it I ‘became’ Aislin McManus… whoa! I am not Aislin… she’s a completely different person, married to Peter and living in Yorkshire. This has partly happened because although not in the first person, the whole narrative […]
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Lois Elsden 