Hello, welcome to my occasional blog about writing, drawing and anything that takes my fancy.
Here’s a good writer’s tip: ‘Write a little every day without and hope and without despair’
It’s from Danish author Karen von Blixen-Finecke (1885 – 1962); born Karen Christence Dinesen, best known under her pen name Isak Dinesen.
News this June is that my pal Michelle Lovric has had her (adults only)‘The Book of Human Skin’ chosen for the new Channel 4 book club reading list http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/tv-book-club-reading-list-announced and another pal Pam Johnson is having her poem included in Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday book. Maybe it’ll make one of his lyrics…You can read about that here.http://wordsunlimited.typepad.com/words_unlimited/2011/05/70-poets-celebrate-dylan-at-70.html
I went to a party at Monsterville, in Stratford’s Discover Children’s Story Centre, and foolishly scoffed a cocktail called Beauty and the Beast. V.strong and filled with shrubbery, made me feel kind of rubbery. Sarah McIntyre (author of Sheffield book prize winning ‘Morris the Mankiest Monster’) took this pic of me trying on a monster wig. On the right is
Axel Scheffler, (creator of the Gruffalo.) More about this on Sarah’s website and amazing blog (how does she have the energy?) www.jabberworks.co.uk/
Meanwhile I draw a little every day, without hope and without despair….
15 responses to “Welcome to my blog (will I keep it up?)”
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Stimulating thoughts here! So the Royal Family costs a fortune and the country is forced to tighten its belt. There are 450 apartments in Buck House and how many in all the other houses the Windors occupy at our cost. I would put the homeless in there and get them off the streets.
As for stories about princesses once the royals have gone, well everyone is a princess and a prince – potentially. I think the stories, and that’s what they are, pure fantasy, are for us to write and read. Naturalism is out! Anyway in a so-called egalitarian state a ‘royal’ family is an anomaly and needs eradicating. Put the Windsors out to grass; they’ve profited a long time on the back of the taxpayer. Time to move on.
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