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 year …
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 Thought I Saw “This …
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 of …
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 …
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 amazing people on PlanBig, and this …
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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.
