Juiced On Writing

I Have to Learn to ‘Take’ Positive Critique

I’ve always shirked critique of any kind. Being of a very sensitive and shy nature in real life, any attempts at providing some ‘rooms for improvement’ have resulted in my withdrawing away and worrying over my absolute failures in all-things-life for days on end. It came out on all my school reports also. I’m not [...]

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The 57 Rules for Writers

Every writer has seen these before, so why not again? I thought it worthwhile publishing these again for myself mainly. As I enter into an editing / revision stage I find myself worrying over grammar and punctuation, whether speech is acceptable with double speech marks, or not. Over what is a dangling participle, or isn’t. [...]

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The Ecological Warrior, er, Writer

As a New Zealander, I was brought up to always consider the environment. In my childhood, tourism and horticulture were big commodities in my home country – and to maintain both we were enveloped as children in a doctrine to ‘look after’ our environment, watch out for fires, to not litter, to not waste. We [...]

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Ah, for Pete’s Sake!

If you wanna be a writer, just write, right? Good advice, but not given by anyone who has tried to do it while their six year old daughter is dancing around the living room in sparkly high heels, showing the family dog her tap-dancing routine. ‘You don’t do tap dancing,’ I pointed out hopefully. ‘YOU [...]

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Fat Free Writing

Some time ago I blogged about writing – the post was called Completely. Fat. Free. Crafting, and provided a comparison between the craft (and expense) of scrapbooking as a hobby, and that of the completely inexpensive business of writing. The post on a blog was picked up by a lovely woman who runs a writing [...]

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