As most of you know, I’m a big fan of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I was first introduced to NaNo by my author-friend, Trudy J Morgan-Cole (who is pretty much responsible for me taking the plunge and submitting my manuscripts and therefore being published) in April last year. I decided to bite the proverbial bullet and give it a go and found it more than a little addictive. (more…)
Entries from September 2009
The driving force
September 26, 2009 · 2 Comments
I was thinking this week about what it is that makes me write. Apart from the fact I love words, have oodles too many of them colliding in my head on a daily basis and enjoy being creative, what is it that drives me? I think I’ve worked out the answer: I have a burning desire to know what happens in the end. (more…)
Categories: writing
Tagged: motivation to write, writing
Powerful squiggles
September 19, 2009 · 14 Comments
This past week has been the best and worst week of my life. It started in the wee hours of Monday morning when I got out of bed knowing that very shortly I would be handing my 4-year-old son over to a team of surgeons to fix his leaky heart. We had been upbeat and positive about the whole situation, particularly in front of Possum. We only found out that he had a congenital heart defect (AVSD) in the first week of July so it’s been a lot to get our heads around in a short time. (more…)
Categories: writing
Tagged: atrioventricular septal defect, AVSD, emotions, hospital, open heart surgery, PICU, therapy
