Yesterday it rained so my thought of sitting outside in the sun was smashed, but when I arrived (late - what can I say, I'm a writer and getting up early isn't usually an issue) I found that the class was looking at little things. Botanical illustration is about the small over the large, and it… Continue reading Botanical illustration
Tag: creative writing
Ill-health and a writerly struggle
I have a deadline coming up for an anthology of short stories. It is going to be tight, but it is still do-able. Except I did something silly. For the last four months I've been on iron tablets. I go anaemic easily and this time it was enough to worry to doctors. But after the… Continue reading Ill-health and a writerly struggle
Busy!
I am SO busy. Why is it all deadlines seem to clump together? I have a theory that they are actually sentient beings and they follow a migration route. The one they are using at the moment reaches its conclusion at the end of September. Of course the result of this is that I am… Continue reading Busy!
The Tracks
Loneliness is an interesting feeling. It hits you in the center of your chest and leaves you standing there feeling as if you have lost something but not knowing what. I suppose I do know what is missing. I suppose.Once, a while back, I walked this part of the line, listening with one ear for the… Continue reading The Tracks
A trying time
I am finding everything a little difficult at the moment. Maybe it is the deadlines or the stress of family or the simple fact that for the last three weeks my life has been booked solid. I mean I have loved doing everything but now I just want to be able to get a whole… Continue reading A trying time
Dyspraxia, Writing and Drawing
I fell today - not a bad fall. But it hurt, and still does. The problem with dyspraxia is that you have no balance. You don't put a foot wrong, it is just that you fall. Today it was a change in surface. I went from grass to walking on wood and bang... I'm on… Continue reading Dyspraxia, Writing and Drawing
Sometimes it can be so very hard…
Breathe already!
I love books... I read masses of them. And I mean MASSES. Maybe it's because I didn't learn to read until I was 11. But whatever the reason I devour them. One I have been reading was a romance. Now, I don't read a lot of them for the simple reason that the writers are… Continue reading Breathe already!
What if I won the lottery?
We have this discussion at home all the time. Me, Mum and Dad sit around at breakfast and discuss what we would do... The odd thing is that we discuss it all in terms of the three of us. So it is whether to put the extension on or to move and if we moved… Continue reading What if I won the lottery?
Stress and printing
My big printer that was able to print A1 has given up the ghost and become the largest, heaviest paperweight I own. I am going to get someone to look at it but I have had to get another one... Except it isn't the same.You see my artwork has moved on since I started. I… Continue reading Stress and printing
Kate Murray - Cleaver 