Talk Like an Ancient Egyptian. Plotting, outlining, whatever you like to call it, is, for me, one of the most important parts of writing a novel.

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Tuesday, 31 January 2017. New Year Reflections on 2016. Well it has been three years since I actively started blogging and as it is January it is a time for reflection upon what I got up to in the last year. In general I have blogged less this year, probably due to returning to the world of work after an extended maternity leave, but I have still endeavoured to become a picture book Author and Illustrator, which is what my blogging aims to document.

Let me say straight out that I found the instructions for making one of these fold-it-yourself books on this site. By the lovely Nancy I. Sanders, who shares so much of her wisdom about writing for children and schools via her many books. Previously, I have made my own dummies in a totally different way less fun but maybe easier for including lots of pages. You could use any la.

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At Yellow Lake and Other Places. Friday, 25 April 2014. For Kincorth in Aberdeen, Scotland. What it does mean is that you.

Hundreds of hidden springs, but only one has the power to raise the dead. Can Izzy find it in time? Sunday, 1 December 2013. November was an eclectic reading month. There was a mix of fiction and non fiction, young adult, new adult and middle grade, published and self-published. Unusually, for me, none of the books fitted into the category of UKYA this time.

About Notes from the Slushpile. Friday, 6 April 2018. Ten Tips for Dealing With Deadlines. How could I have forgotten? That was me, until fairly recently. Only came out in 2016 after many, many years of trying to get published.