These last few days have been REALLY busy, and I’m still catching up. So (mea culpa) I didn’t meet my last challenge of drawing something or someone precious to me. Instead, I’ll share with you one of my earliest drawings along with a page of text from one of my earliest stories. (It was a…
Old Worlds, New Worlds, Otherworlds is this year’s theme for CBCA Book Week and I’ve been posting on fb, challenging readers to write something. Yesterday’s challenge was to create a poem using this photograph of an owl (taken by a very talented photographer friend, Laurie Wilson.) I’m no poet – but I had fun trying! …
I set this challenge yesterday to celebrate Book Week: a short story using this photograph for inspiration. This is the photograph and this is what I’ve come up with below. Oh – so I can’t save and print it out apparently (don’t you love technology!) But if you click on it, I think (hope) you’ll…
The mystical Glastonbury and Glastonbury Tor have long been an inspiration for authors. This ancient site was supposedly the home of Gwyn app Nudd, Lord of the Underworld; the site of the ancient Isle of Avalon of Arthurian legend; the early Christian site visited by Joseph of Arimathea after the crucifixion of Christ and, more…