I read once that to become a great writer one needed to invent new words into the English language. Shakespeare is credited in the Oxford English Dictionary of creating over 500. From the spectacled pedant to the schoolboy, all gentlefolk recognize Shakespeare as a fathomless fount of coinages. The honey-tongued Bard had no rival, nor [...]
I want to fall tigers in love with you You make me feel tigers growing in me Will you never have a tiger love for me
Publishing a book, I have found out, was the easy part. Selling the book is a whole different ball game. While I may have writing skills, and am able to write a good introduction letter or marketing pitch, when it comes to talking about my book I sometimes find it hard. Growing up in New [...]
Yesterday caught up with the photography girls and our tutor for lunch. It was fun to find out what we are perusing at the moment and where our artistic and photography journeys have taken us. We all started together about four years ago and have taken different paths in our creative lives. Katharina continues to [...]
I got given a ticket to see the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra play at Juice Bar in Parnell last night. My main reason for going was to hang out with my girlfriends, not the ukulele’s. I had been told the orchestra was fun but somehow I couldn’t imagine a ukulele being anything other than annoyingly [...]
The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played With Fire; The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest Stieg Larsson – The Millennium Trilogy I have just raced my way through the third and final book in the Millennium Trilogy. The character of Lisbeth Salander, a dissociative, punk, dangerous, petite computer hacker with a [...]
As you may have gathered by now if you have read more than one of my blogs, I am a bit of an analogy junkie. The iceberg growlers that are floating into New Zealand waters at the moment made me think of this one. For every word you type and produce in a completed work, [...]
What is the fascination with the Twilight Series and the Harry Potter books? Like everyone else I have read all the books, and I loved them. I have my favourite characters and I have loved the movies as well. I am wondering why these stories in particular have grabbed the imagination of children and teenagers [...]
Many many years ago, according to my grandfather, my distant relative tried to blow up parliament. So every year on the 5th November his effigy is burned on a bonfire to celebrate his failed mission. This year, unlike in NZ, I got to see a ‘Guy’ be burned and it was glorious! He sat atop [...]
Spring the dictionary defines the meaning of Spring as: to move or cause to move suddenly upwards or forwards in a single motion. to release or be released from a forced position by elastic force: the bolt sprang back. to leap or jump over. to happen or cause to happen unexpectedly: to spring a surprise; [...]
