… provided the cats permit it. đ¤Ł
… provided the cats permit it. đ¤Ł
For those of you who havenât given it a stab, the process of writing a novel is, for me anyway, like having a tip truck dump a pile of LEGO blocks in your driveway, your mission being to construct the opening credits of Game of Thrones (look it up) without any instructions. Translation: a hella …
No matter which faith or belief system youâve signed up for – or lack of same – one thing you canât deny is that the entrepreneurial spirits who crafted the early Christian Church were masters of marketing. Want to amp up your convert numbers to keep upper management happy when your KPIs for the year …
How, you ask? When youâre outside fretting about the fact that itâs mid-April and youâre wearing a t-shirt and watering your plants because you literally havenât had any meaningful rain in months, and everything seems gravely out of whack. But then you see them. Sweet, juicy tomatoes and plump cucumbers on bushes that should have …
Those times when the white noise abates and the mental chatter falls silent are precious. Treasure them.
OK. So, Iâm bloody loving the process of unpacking my poor library, consigned to cardboard boxes for way too many months. Then I reached my substantial collection of art books. â Hail, old friends!â I cried. (My children frequently accuse me of channelling someone born in the fifteenth century). But as I was setting them …
As is my way, Iâm going to tell you a little story. And then I want to ask you a question. The people and project involved shall remain anonymous to protect the innocent. And the not-so đ! So, I was chatting to a friend who works in film and tv the other day (no, to …
So, amongst other attributes, Iâd describe myself as moderately intelligent, a fierce advocate for womenâs rights, a reader of fine literature, and a writer. So how is it that this steaming pile is my reading material of choice in the hair salon? Believe me, thereâs no shortage of high-brow reading material here. But my hairdresser …
Blurbs. Yes, you read correctly. Blurbs. Might seem that the writing of the novel itself is the difficult bit. Nah. Itâs the blurb. (And the acknowledgments pages – another story told on another post). How to package an entire story in a handful of digestible, enticing and intriguing sentences? Nightmare. In the film and tv …
True story. Hereâs something I heard from colleague working on what will be an extremely high-profile local TV production. One of the actors involved is rather extensively covered in tattoos. No biggie, right? Wrong. The production has to seek permission from each and every one of the skin artists who has worked on the actorâs …