A trip to the cinema to see Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' made me think about how difficult I would have found it as a writer to know where to start writing the script for it. Actually, one of the very many good things about this movie was that it made me think about quite a lot …
Sayings of my granny
After writing the heading for this post I stopped to think how many of my granny's sayings I could actually remember, and although when I was young it seemed my mother was always quoting from her, I can now easily count them on the fingers of one hand. But I suppose it's the sayings that …
If I only had a theme
I was reminded this morning, when reading someone else's blog post about themes (http://yamuses.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/identifying-your-storys-theme.html), that I've been struggling a bit with a theme for 'The Lion and Unicorn Quest'. Well, struggling a lot. It's worrying me because in my experience my novels are better if I start out with a theme which I can then …
Beware of the interloper
Although I've managed to avoid redding up the house (see previous post) and I found myself sending off a couple of Christmas cards yesterday because they were for people overseas and I put off going to the Post Office with them at an earlier stage, I haven't completely wasted my Christmas and New Year holidays. …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 