One of the topics at the Problogger event on Friday was about writing ebooks. Here are some of the thoughts they gave us with a few of mine dotted around just to help me remember. Outline Start off with an outline, a sketch of what is meant to be and ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
You knew a rant would be forthcoming, I’m sure. It’s a computer that comes without a manual and I’m struggling with some parts of it. It was such a great day on Monday, really good for drying, so I decided to take the blankets down to the laundromat and get ...
I hate typos, they are one of the things I hate the most. Typographical Errors really annoy me and if I say it again you might even believe me. If you’re really unlucky you’ve been on the receiving end of an email from me when I’ve found a typo on ...
This is such a fun topic. We had it fairly recently with J K Rowling being sued for plagiarism, here is the latest on that one, the man making the claim has been asked to pay an enormous sum of money before the court will actually hear the claim. This ...
I’ve been having trouble getting back into the routine of writing for my blog, I was doing really well last month blogging five days a week and now I’m seriously struggling. I haven’t lost my muse as I have plenty to write about and as I demonstrated last night when ...
Facebook I’ve been really struggling to get motivated to do anything tonight. Not terribly good as I have three articles to write. I’ll write something here and hopefully be more motivated tomorrow to get the other two out of the way. I’m just a bit cheesed off as I’ve been ...
I was talking to Arnold Zable the other week and happened to tell him I hadn’t seen his books in op shops or secondhand bookshops too often. I’ve seen so many other authors but not his. A couple of authors I’ve seen come up so many times are Dan Brown ...
I’ve always wondered about the vast numbers of celebrity books that are around. How come they are all such good writers, surely they can’t all have the necessary skills to write a book as well as doing all the things they normally do. I do understand that some people are ...
Colin Thiele, a name from my childhood. He was born in Eudunda in November 1920 to German parents. He only spoke German until he attended school at Julia and it was at school that his love of the written word started. He died at the age of 85 in September ...
I’m very passionate about writing…well, actually from my point of view it’s more about the reading than the writing but someone has to write so I can read it. I’m also very passionate about the Australian writing industry, if we don’t support them then they will go out of business ...
I’d taken some holidays, much needed as I have to break the addiction to books and the internet. It was very hard to leave the computer at home and while packing I left it to the last moment to pack my laptop as I was still undecided whether I’d be ...