Recent Posts Tagged With 'connie'

• Plum Pudding - (which has no plums and is not a pudding)

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 00:01 in romans, connie, plum pudding, hard sauce, mince pie, medieval resistance to all of the above

  If there is anything more elusive than plum pudding, I am deeply concerned for mankind. It began its confusion in the 1420s, in England (where else?) when it was used to preserve meat.In Medieval Europe, it was not possible to feed livestock over the...

• The Ring in Fire

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 00:01 in first draft, connie, new wip, life-changing decision exercise

  Bear with me please folks. I don’t, at the moment, have a character I know well enough, or wish to digress with, to do this exercise of creating for them a life-changing decision.As some of you know, I have been playing with the idea of writing a b...

• You should write a book

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 01:01 in memoirs, connie, your autobiography or a novel? structure

  There are a number of reactions to a writer's confession that they are a writer:1) yawn. (yawn yourself you illiterate hedgehog)2) oh really? (yes really. Nobody makes up stuff like that)3) what do you write? do you make it up or do you write fiction...

• Romancing the Blogspot

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 01:01 in blogspot, writing exercises, connie, writing methods, diana gabaldon, new approach, reporter vs novelist

  In the weekly column I write, I run into the same problem I have at this minute -Whatwilliwriteaboutthistime? If I have nothing to rant about, I produce bits and pieces of thoughts and overheards and ideas and try to avoid falling back on a synopsis ...

• The End

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 01:01 in endings, connie, non-fiction forms, carney nerland, surrey contest

  In a previous post, I asked your advice about creating a non-fiction story for a Surrey contest. I finally finished it and mailed it in.I am posting it here for two reasons: a family crisis has stolen all my time for researching and writing a useful ...

• It goes with the Territory

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 01:01 in conflict, connie, territories, self-concept

  I am an Anglican/I am ACC/I never falter/While setting up altar/I am Catholic, apostolic and free/Not a Presby/not United/not a Baptist white with foam/I am an Anglican/Via Media boom boom.Those are the words to a church camp song and a way to introd...

• Non-Fiction

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 01:01 in revelations, connie, povs, story and essay forms, non-fiction forms

  I am determined to write a non-fiction story for a Surrey Conference Contest. However, it is giving me no end of problems.If it were a news story, I would start with the conclusion and add facts until the editor cut it somewhere, depending on space a...

• Be Prepared

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 01:01 in contests, conferences, connie, being prepared, lady baden-powell and me

  I think I swore to Be Prepared on Lady Baden-Powell's death bed 60 odd years ago. Be Prepared has come up a few times since, but not many. Too darn busy being unprepared for what happens next. Kids do that to you.I decided to Be Prepared this time an...

• Why are you a writer?

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 01:01 in writing, choices, connie, self-examination, personal backgrounds

  Why are you a writer? Why aren’t you a pianist, a speed skater, a waitress, an elephant trainer or a fanatical house keeper?Has being a writer always been a dream you are incredibly enthusiastic about or are you just giving it a go?What is a writer...

• BUT I DON’T WANNA!

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 01:35 in revision, connie

  The very thought of sitting down to revise a story has all the appeal of doing my own income tax.Before rushing into a revision, I thought I would read up on the subject in several books I borrowed from the SRW library. And then, I was going to pass ...