by admin | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
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...
by admin | Nov 25, 2011 | Blog
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....
by admin | Nov 24, 2011 | Blog
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...
by admin | Nov 16, 2011 | Blog
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...
by admin | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
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...
by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog
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...