…you were wondering what the answers to my first line quiz were.
Just in case…
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The answers – sort of.
A pocket sized book journal
No claimants yet for my small-but-useful prize.
So I am putting the answers on here – but in a muddle. All you have to do is match the cover with the quotation from last week.
Blame Mother Goose
Well – actually the excellent editrix, and hippophile, Imogen Cooper. This week’s #GEAQA (Golden Egg Academy question & answer session on Twitter) was all about first lines. We had such fun posing them and guessing, I thought some of you might like a re-run on here. Then I thought about having a teeny competition…
Whether – or not
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather,
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.
It might be said to be the favourite British subject of conversation, but these days, how many of us fully experience the weather – and what can it bring to our work? Continue reading
Music in the Waves
My friends, writer Lu Hersey and her agent Ben Illis, alerted me to a new film from Tomm Moore and Cartoon Studio. They know how much I love the sea – and how passionate I am about selkies!
Offerings
This piece evolved from an exercise set by Emma Jane Unsworth writer and tutor at Lumb Bank, near Heptonstall. The Arvon workshop was called ‘The Art of Beating your Demons.’
I hope it might help other writers.
With Unbound, she was free!
Suzie Wilde
Something quite new for this blog – an author interview with Suzie Wilde. She patiently answers my questions about her crossover novel The Book of Bera Part One: The Sea Paths and its journey to publication through Unbound.
Adopt-an-Article
Sometimes it’s hard to be a blogger
Writin’ all these post with just two hands.
Oh, there’s good times, but too many bad times,
Writin’ things that no-one understands…
The art of beating demons
On Monday 13th July, I am off up to Yorkshire, my homeland. I’m feeling both nervous, and rather optimistic. I will stay at Lumb Bank with the Arvon Foundation, not for the first time so at least I know the ropes.
This time it’s the course itself that really stirs my trepidation. If it’s to do me any good, I have to engage with it – and those ‘demons’. Continue reading
Me and my shadow
If you’re wanting a relentlessly cheery blog-post with fluffiness and added cute, move along. Nothing much for you here.