Happy 2015! I bet that within the millions of New Year’s Resolutions made so far this new year, there are at least some that go like this: “This year I will start writing that book I’ve been thinking about.” “This year I will write more of that book I made a bit of a start on last year/the year before last/several years ago.” My advice to anyone who nods in…
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human…
Expert (adjective): Having a great deal of knowledge or skill in a particular area. When I first started writing I had this idea, like a lot of other people no doubt, that I needed to be specially gifted to be a writer. In order to succeed, an innate talent was required that, with a little nurturing, could be set free to wow the world. When I began to give writing a…
Hi, I'm Mel (you figured that out already though, right?!) and this is where I chat about things that relate to and inspire my writing, as well as share some of it.