What experiences in life helped you grow the most? I lived the first 38 years of my life thinking I was mad and lazy and wrong and just not meant to be. I worked differently. I didn't see the world the same. I couldn't hold down a real job, I couldn't hold a boyfriend that… Continue reading Diagnosis
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I passed!
I have my masters mark!!!! I have passed with a merit. *does a little happy dance*
An Ending and a New Beginning
Today was the day... I handed in my dissertation, so although I am still a student the work is done. Now I've got to make it out there in the real world. My support workers are finished and I am alone. I don't know... Part of me is really happy that I have handed it… Continue reading An Ending and a New Beginning
My USP (unique selling point)
I know this may sound a little too much like business, but this year I went on a writing for publication course and this was a huge part of it. And lately it has been on my mind. The lecturer had said that you need to get the publisher, agent or even reader to want… Continue reading My USP (unique selling point)
Back to University….
My new term started today with my lecturer handing me my dissertation proposal and being told to hand it in to the postgraduate office. I have sent emails to this office but up till today it drifted in the ether for me. After a complicated trip in the rabbit warren that is the university I… Continue reading Back to University….
Dylan Thomas Boathouse
Today was the first day of the masters and we all went to the Dylan Thomas Boathouse to meet and have a poetry reading. It helped that it was also National Poetry Day... Something I should have known about but didn't. If you don't know the Boathouse it is in Laugharne in Wales and is… Continue reading Dylan Thomas Boathouse
Autumn leaves and new starts
I think I am too used to being in education because autumn is more like spring to me. Not only is it my favourite time of year but I also get to start new things. Except this year I am finishing off and I find myself feeling more and more despondent that things are coming… Continue reading Autumn leaves and new starts
Sentence length…
I have an issue with sentence lengths. I feel that I ought to be standing in a darkened room with other writers as we all try to come to terms with out foibles with writing. I knew one writer that loved to have a musical feel to his work, consequently he would count the syllables… Continue reading Sentence length…
Dialect and writing
I was caught the other day copying dialect from the television. I know it sounds odd but I can't write dialect, I've tried and it just sounds bad. My characters go from sounding almost normal to sounding totally cardboard and just unexciting. The result is that all my characters speak the same, but different. I… Continue reading Dialect and writing
Picture Books and writing for children
I have an idea for a picture book. Even the illustrations are starting to come about. But for some unknown reason I keep downgrading it. "It's only a picture book." "It's not literature, just writing for children." "I'm only writing for children." Why do I keep doing that? I love what I'm doing and it… Continue reading Picture Books and writing for children
Kate Murray - Cleaver 