characters

Loving my people…

Writing by LoisJanuary 21, 2013September 25, 2013

Hopeless at accents…

Writing by LoisJanuary 3, 2013September 15, 2018

Hint, hint

The Easthope stories by LoisDecember 15, 2012September 15, 2018

Hush your mouth!

The Easthope stories by LoisDecember 10, 2012September 15, 2018

Writing by LoisAugust 30, 2012September 13, 2018

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 […]

… and I name this character… er… um… er…

Writing by LoisJuly 10, 2012September 13, 2018

Writing by LoisJuly 7, 2012September 13, 2018

Where did Rosa Czekov come from?

I’m often asked where the ideas for my stories come from and as I have said before there are all sorts of triggers for me, images, snatches of conversation, news items, people at a party… It’s difficult to remember exactly where ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ came from… certainly I had wanted to write a story about stalkers […]

… and finally….

Writing by LoisJuly 7, 2012September 11, 2013

Working backwards to move forwards!

Writing by LoisMay 3, 2012September 13, 2018

Writing by LoisApril 20, 2012September 13, 2018

Paring and pruning

I am continuing to edit ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’. I’m about half way through reading it out loud to myself, cutting out repetitions… of which I seem particularly fond. When I write I have a commentary running in my head which is in normal spoken English with sentences beginning with ‘and’ and ‘but’, words repetitive for audible emphasis as one would in […]