Introduction:I had always written from a very early age. It was in my blood. It was what enchanted the little girl who used to sit and scribble for hours and hours, pouring ideas and thoughts into the pages I had before me….. At the time, I didn’t know what I was doing, but this essay […]
Continue ReadingThe Questions of Rejections, Reflections, and Returning to Will Worthington in 2023
Over the last two years, there came many times when I thought to myself….. ‘Am I actually going to finish the first book?’ Why? I was so intent on getting it right. There is so much competition in this industry that I knew that this really was the last ‘Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow’ […]
Continue ReadingWhat Is Going On With Me? It’s Not Suite
I know. It’s such a stupid title, 🙁 yet, I am feeling a little emotional right now, and I need to do what I love the most in order to feel myself again. Also, please don’t judge my writing on this post. It’s taking me so much restraint not to edit as I go here, […]
Continue ReadingMy Guide for Literary Agent submission by R.E. Brooker
Introduction: Before I begin this blog post, I want to make something clear to everyone: I am not an expert when it comes to literary agents. I am new to this terrifying, exciting (and hopefully life-changing) world; a world that is fraught with overspilling questions, like ‘Who do I send my book to?’ ‘What’s the […]
Continue ReadingMore Writing Tips : My Top Ten
If something isn’t fitting, it’s not meant to be in the book, and trying for hours is not going to make it fit… There is always a reason that it doesn’t – and whether that’s character, plot, or narrative, it will make sense in due course. (E.g. If your characters aren’t acting like themselves temporarily, […]
Continue ReadingA Writer’s Life by R.E. Brooker
I’m on a magical ferris-wheel. I never want to get off. The views here are breath-taking, enchanting Imagination’s brush painting new landscapes over hills and seas, chapters flooded in darkness, sprinkles of tinkling laughter, and far-away places – not for you, or me The light bends, rainbow chinks A prism of my own making ————- […]
Continue ReadingWhy Do I Like Cleaning? The Mysteries of a Mess-Hating Mind!
I wasn’t always like this…… When I was younger, I would often leave my bedroom in a complete mess, and somehow just be able to live like that! I would – (and I remember this so vividly) step over the clothes or toys that lined the floor, they were fine there….. and then, one day, […]
Continue ReadingShooting for the Stars, cough, Pineapples…..
Introduction Well, it has been a long road to my traditional publishing dreams; a road filled with so many twists and turns that I don’t even know where to look anymore. Experiences As I mentioned previously, I began Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow in 2007, and since then, it has gone through (I’m not […]
Continue ReadingKazamir Kirrolivitch
Today, I am going to talk about the main antagonist in my upper middle grade, ‘Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow’ I won’t tell you much, because, spoilers, but I will allow you a quick glimpse…… At just 15, Kazamir Kirrolivitch has a merciless drive for vengeance. He is ruthless. He is powerful, and he […]
Continue ReadingMy #1linewed on the 14th April – Theme – Egg
Harry Potter “What shall we throw, George?” “I don’t know, Fred, what do you think we should throw?” “How about nothing?” said Ginny, “We can just de-gnome the garden like always.” “That’s boring!” chorused Fred and George, their eyes falling on a basket of eggs… “I bought a new one, ‘arry!” Hagrid said, with a […]
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