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 […]
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How do I describe you? You You are many things You’re the beefy-shouldered bully that follows you home, whispering hot and cold threats right outside your door You’re the nosy neighbour who hates your family name the snotty, spotty kid who graffitis over window panes You’re the incessant banging from the dingy basement that you […]
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 ReadingThe Poetry Pack part 1
Time Ripples, like life lines on a fortune teller’s palmTide retreats, returns a constant under the blazing sunThe air is cold here, sharp, a barber’s rusty bladebut there is excitement tooyawning into the trail oflong, endless days Coffee Sitting in a busy-bustle universe,Hustle and rustle,Forward, backwards; the clatter of traysBrimming latte towers and stares,Wisps of steam furling,Silver mists […]
Continue ReadingMy #1linewed on the 28th April – Theme – Hero
Lemony Snicket “We’re not heroes, Vi,” said Klaus, looking out of the grimy window in Olaf’s basement, “We just try and try and fight and fight – and the grownups don’t even believe us!” Violet bit her lip. “Grownups are very often wrong.” “You can say that again.” Harry Potter Ron pocketed his wand, sighing. […]
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