I am trying to close the business. The soft toys will be gone on Monday. But there is a back-log. The result is that I have no time for anything; from blogging, to writing, to drawing. And it is driving me nuts. I am so frustrated that I want to throw everything in the air… Continue reading A pear-shaped situation
Category: Masters tales
Anything about the Masters in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting
Cold Turkey
I stopped dead. Picked up all the paraphernalia and put it in the cupboard. One day you could see what I did and the next it was as if the occupation had never even existed... I'm not talking about drugs or anything damaging. Instead it was the art. Six years ago I put all the… Continue reading Cold Turkey
A stranger stared back at me.
I am having to swap from my familiar glasses to contacts in order to make the best of my sight. What you have to realise is that I have been wearing them since I was twelve... At school I'd slowly moved closer and closer to the chalk board in class. It helped that mine was… Continue reading A stranger stared back at me.
The business of writing
Have you ever been to a business seminar? The kind where the chairs are in a circle and you have to discuss your goals? I have. Not for the writing, but for the manufacture of soft toys. At the time I had already realised that business was a strange beast and one I didn't understand.… Continue reading The business of writing
A Quirk
This is an extract of my novel. The 'thing' is a woodland fey trying to explain his quirk. Dai is a boy from Wales who is trying to save his sister from a hag... The thing notices and frowns as if I have made some huge mistake in taking a step back, but I just… Continue reading A Quirk
The Future
I don't know what the future holds. And believe me, I've tried looking. Just a little job/money security at the moment would be great. Instead, all I see is a mist. In Harry Potter there is a mirror that lets you see your greatest hearts desire. If I had stood in front of it a… Continue reading The Future
My style…
Do I have one? Well, I opened my wardrobe to see if I had a style in there other than just jeans and tops... I do. I have every coloured jumper under the sun, especially if they have a fair-isle pattern or are cabled. Most are hand knitted and most are in your face. Honestly,… Continue reading My style…
Happiness
What is happiness? I have written about it... Although I have noticed that my characters tend to have more conflict than happiness. It is just more interesting to write about something throwing your character in at the deep-end and how they get out of the situation, rather than a perfectly happy being. Personally though, I… Continue reading Happiness
Three Wishes…
Why three? Well, I'm greedy. But if I could have three wishes for next year they would have to be these... 1. To have the ability to make small talk... I would love to talk to people without having to go through a huge rigmarole of trying to find something interesting and failing. "So how… Continue reading Three Wishes…
Ideas…
I tend to write myself into an idea. Even the Dark Crystal Author Quest involved me tapping away in order to find a story within the world they had created. Sometimes inspiration comes from an image and sometimes a word... Suddenly the idea is there, glowing but just out of reach. I then use my… Continue reading Ideas…
Kate Murray - Cleaver 