WoW – Notre Dame de Paris
It’s Write on Wednesday time again. For details of this weeks prompt, click here. Between now & Christmas, I am hoping to write some stories about different aspects of Christmas – just for fun I hope you enjoy them. “Oooh, pretty,” Sophie was in awe. There were...
What are your favourite Christmas traditions?
My gorgeous boys have come up with an awesome idea for Jimmy James in the lead up to Christmas. This has started a list as well as me heading to Google and the library. The first thing we need to do is find 24 random Christmas traditions, preferably Australian ones....
WoW – The Saddest Thing I Ever Heard
It’s Write on Wednesday time again. The prompt this week is The Saddest Thing I Ever Heard. After reading some of the sad stories people had written, I wanted to find something a bit happier. I hope this fits the bill. To the untrained eye, Jack was a normal seven...
WoW – Choose Your Own Adventure
It’s Write on Wednesday time again. I was going through the prompts at Ink Paper Pen to find one that would fit with Jimmy James (though it was tempting for him to make fire again…). Instead I chose I thought I saw… from a couple of weeks ago. So, here goes… I...
Different interpretation of words
The good news is this – inspiration finally arrived last night. This morning, I read what I had written to my two boys, aged 9 & 7. I described socks as “bright orange socks with flashy purple spots on them.” I looked up bright in the thesaurus and flashy was one...
Trying to edit…
Since the Write on Wednesday piece this week, I have been working on the original idea of the Jimmy James story. Now that I know what I’m doing with his stories, I’m trying to rewrite the original. It needed work anyway, but now I have some details to add. Here’s my...
WoW – We are learning to make fire
It’s Write on Wednesday time again. I was hoping this would help me with NaNoWriMo, but it didn’t really help with my current book, but took me back to the original Jimmy James story… I started rewriting it based on feedback from friends, especially a couple of...
NaNoWriMo – An Update
I thought I’d do a quick post to update you all on my progress with NaNoWriMo. Unfortunately, Clara’s story is still at a standstill. I’m not sure where to go next. If you want to help out, go to Accidental WAHM and add some comments to the posts. Jimmy James’ letter...
Replying to letters – too hard?
As part of the Jimmy James novel I’m writing, I want to record the replies JJ receives from those he writes letters to. I’ve had a number of interesting discussions, both on Facebook and face to face with friends on the topic of replies. The question I was asking...
NaNoWriMo – giving it a go
As well as my kids books, you may know that I have a novel (or two) inside my head. The project/s at the front of my mind are to do with the Accidental WAHM stories, specifically the story with Clara or Sally. I stumbled upon NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)...