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‘En Vacances,’ now ‘Back in Oz .’

25 Tuesday Apr 2017

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La Decima, Monte Carlo, Rafael Nadal, Tennis

With the Romance Writers Conference just a page-turn away, it’s on to the last minute tweaking of Pitch proposals and Elevator length, spell-binding book blurbs.

Visiting Monaco again for the Tennis Masters 1000 and catching up with friends from all over the globe was always going to be hard to avoid. The effort well worth the expense.

– polishing up the schoolgirl French

– the routine of using lifts at the end of tunnels and passageways carved through the rock with entrances neatly tucked away in Church entrances, help to offset the trip back up the mountain. Staircases skipped down with a smile at 8am develop a less jovial appearance on return after 4pm.

– learning to calmly negotiate the buses to ‘je ne sais ou’ and find oneself there, more often than not.

– My sporting hero Rafael Nadal has achieved “La Decima” at Monte Carlo Country Club.

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Back to the Classroom

05 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Jane Austen, Margie Lawson

It’s been a while, another manuscript, one more contest, several rejections, not much joy.

Oh, writing the MS was – always is. 🙂 So it was time to get back into the Classroom and knuckle down. I chose Margie’s Classroom  see  http://www.margielawson.com  and I have two wonderful editing partners.

Now that’s joyful!

We are all looking forward to the immediate road ahead and I’ll be back, once I’ve rounded that first bend up ahead.

Cheers

Moulding and honing the new Writer

01 Thursday Dec 2011

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As a new writer with a new blog, I am constantly overwhelmed by established writers’ sites. Many of you will already be clue-ed in to these gems but I’m still getting there and reminding of their continuance surely helps us all.

It’s not just the extent of informative comments and essays but the specifics required to mould and hone said ‘new-writer’ et al, into credible writers in their own right.

With a medical scientific background like mine, specifics truly are what constitute the difference between success and failure and in the medical situation – failure is definitive.  Academic brilliance alone will not save a life. Hands-on expertise, albeit with sound academic knowledge, will.

Writing, it seems to me at this stage of my development, draws a close parallel and the joys of reading the output of published writers’ of all genres, can only add to the background knowledge essential to success as a writer.

The following encounters left me mildly speechless this week.  Brian MacKenzie’s SuperHero Nation at http://www.superheronation.com/ and Simon Morden’s Metrozone at http://www.simonmorden.com/

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