Using old blog posts
I have been a blogger since around 2006/2007, but the first post I still have is from 2008 on Business Mums Blog. For ages I’ve been wanting to turn these posts into a book or two to help small business owners. It’s been really hot here in Melbourne, and my brain is...
At the beginning…
Now that I know what I want the story to be like, I need to work out where it starts. As this is the first book, I was thinking that it could start before the first stop when he is first recruited into the good guys organisation, however I’m starting to think that...
Good guys, bad guys…
One of the suggestions my kids came up with was having some bad guys in the story, something last years book didn’t have. This is something that I’ve been working on. In order to have bad guys, I also needed some good guys. Jimmy James, my main character, is one of...
The power of three…
I’ve recently started reading Writing Hannah by Libby Gleeson. I first discovered Libby Gleeson when Mum borrowed I Am Susannah from the library when I was in primary school when it was a fairly new book. So, I was excited to discover that she had written a book about...
Planning a chapter book
It’s Author Blog Challenge time again, and during March I’m joining in the Chapter Book Challenge once again. For the blog challenge, I’m going to take a leaf out of Ashley Howland’s blog and share my planning for the chapter book challenge. During last years Chapter...
Day 14 – Dressage
It’s Day 14 of the Blogging Olympics, and today’s event is Dressage. Today’s challenge is to look at how to improve the reader experience and make content more shareable. For this challenge, I’m going to look at my Accidental WAHM blog rather than this one. The main...
Day 13 – Triathlon
It’s Day 13 of the Blogging Olympics, and today’s event is the Triathlon. A triathlon is made up of three events – swimming, cycling and running. For this challenge, it is to write a post with text, audio and video. Now, I don’t do audio or video blog posts – mostly...
Day 12 – Wrestling…
It’s Day 12 of the Blogging Olympics and today’s event is the Wrestling. The challenge today is to find a post I disagree with and write a counter post. The only problem with this is that I haven’t read any posts lately that I disagree with strongly enough to remember...
Day 11 – Synchronised Swimming Team
It’s Day 11 of the Blogging Olympics, and today’s event is Synchronised Swimming. This is one of those sports that no one seems to understand, but is fascinated by at the same time. It’s amazing watching the teams perform their routines upside-down and under water!...
Day 10 – Blogging Bullseye
It’s Day 10 of the Blogging Olympics, and today’s event is archery and share our blogging goals. My eight year old is about to go on his first ever school camp and is looking forward to trying archery for the first time. Anyway, back to the prompt. To be honest, on...