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 …
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 …
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 writing for children. When she is …
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 Book Challenge, I wrote a Jimmy …
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 reason for this is simple …
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 – …
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About Melissa
Melissa Gijsbers started writing when she was in High School during the 1990s, even winning some awards for a short story and a script. For many years, life got in the way of creative writing, however she did start blogging around 2006.
She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her two sons and a pet blue tongue lizard.
