I’d advise anyone trying to break into the women’s fiction market to note down ideas as they occur, it’s so easy to forget them. What advice would you give to people trying to break into the women’s fiction market? I have written a 140,000 saga novel and learned a lot by doing so but I think it will stay on a memory stick. Entitled “The Dark One” it has mildly sinister overtones. I have just written a 40,000 word story set in the Welsh Marches. I spent about six weeks researching and writing the story and ended up very behind with Christmas preparations as a result.įor me an idea has to be good enough to justify a story and often two ideas come together and can be combined. I enjoyed writing Molly and Charlie’s story and was able to draw on my father’s memories of being posted to Harris during WW2 to provide an authentic background. How long did it take you to complete your pocket novel? As a reception class teacher I didn’t have time to write and enjoyed doing so once I’d taken early retirement.Īlthough I enjoy reading contemporary novels by Mary Lawson, Alice Hoffman, Claire Fuller, Rachel Joyce and Elizabeth Strout, the books I return to are the “Anne of Green Gables” series that I loved as a child, “The Magic Apple Tree” by Susan Hill and my comfort reading during the pandemic, Miss Read’s “Fairacre” books. I’ve always made up stories and English was by far my best subject at school.
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Let's try this: My image is reflected by the mirror, and I see it in the mirror. I feel like it could be either: 'Much like the salty air, he cuts into my flesh, a memory of that inscribed in black ink.' OR 'Much like the salty air he cuts into my flesh, a memory of that inscribed in black ink.' Thanks in advance! 'Much like the salty air, he cuts into my flesh a memory of that inscribed in black ink.' I'm unsure whether this is right or not. Off topic: I was also wondering if someone could help me out with the punctuation in this sentance. In this instance, I think either or works, but "in" probably makes more sense, in the sense that the light reflects the hope within the speaker. Thank you for your replies :) I think that IMcRout's definition of "reflected in" suits the metaphorical statement which I'm making in the poem, but KerryP, you are totally right, it's very confusing and without question open to a lot of interpetation. If this was a student paper, I’d take out my big red pen and write “ What’s your thesis?” on the cover page. The Poppy War) … but because I literally have no idea what this book was about. Not because it’s complex, mind-blowing, and hard-to-condense (cf. I spent last night’s bus ride trying to figure out how to summarize this book - what I typically do at the start of these reviews - but I don’t know where to begin. Something I can wisely refer to the next time I see a patient. A bit of practical knowledge, a bit of feel good, maybe a cheesy strategy or two. With all that positive praise, it was definitely going to be a solid self-help book. I was going to walk out of this book a new woman. I was fully expecting a life-changing experience of pure enlightenment. She’s the current darling of the popular therapy world … was frequently referenced during weekly staff meeting at my counselling clinic … came highly recommended from my supervisors … and my tea-drinking-GP-Saturday-brunch-pal raves about her. I’ve been hearing about Brown almost constantly for the past two years. Can somebody PLEASE explain to me what “the wilderness” is? Because after 167 pages of rambling nonsense, I have no idea what just happened. Among performers around the globe, Seeger became a symbol of a principled artist deeply engaged in the world. He recorded over eighty albums - of children’s songs, labor, civil rights, and antiwar songs, traditional American folk songs, international songs, and Christmas songs. Thanks to Seeger’s influence, protest songs - via folk, rock, blues, and soul genres - became popular and even commercially successful. He introduced Americans to songs from other cultures, like “Wimoweh” (“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”) from South Africa, “Tzena, Tzena” from Israel (which reached number two on the pop charts), and “Guantanamera” from Cuba, inspiring what is now called “world music.” The songs he wrote, including the antiwar tunes, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and those he has popularized, including “This Land Is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome,” have been recorded by hundreds of artists in many languages and have become global anthems for people fighting for freedom. Pete provided much of the soundtrack for the political awakening of several generations of activists. Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists in American history, would be 100 on May 3, were he still alive. |