Ok – so I’ve been getting ready to blitz my novel in November, using National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo as it is known). Basically, you commit to writing 50,000 words in a month! If that doesn’t get me into this novel in a big way – nothing will! The […]
We are up to Week Two in the workshop for Heart of a Child and are looking at characters. I could explain it here – but I will leave it to the expert Cayce Berryman again: Main Characters by Cayce Berryman Cheers Kerry
Those of you who are following me on this know that I had decided to use both Thomas Armstrongs in my story. But I have tried – and I just cannot get interested in the war history! I’m a social historian and I just can’t bring myself to read one […]
Writing is a solitary activity, right? Well – it is. But that doesn’t mean that you have to do it in cultural isolation ….. I have tried a couple of different groups that actually meet to discuss writing etc. but they haven’t really suited me. I wish they had and […]
Many songs have such a long history that no-one is sure where they began: The Parting Glass is one of those songs. It has been sung, in one form or another, since at least the 18th century, and quite probably as early as the 17th century (Kloss, 2012). In the […]
I had no intention of taking this long to get back into the swing of things writing-wise. But, things just got busy and lots of changes were occurring – life was happening, as it does. The biggest change by far was the addition of our new furbaby: this is Bindi. […]
The photograph above is of my parents in 1961. So many families sagas involve the merging of two families through marriage. And the marriage ceremony itself has so may different traditions and associations. Here are links to just a few: Why does the bride always stand on the left? Weddings […]
Today, I put up our Christmas tree. I always put it up on or by the first weekend of December. Not before December. Always before the end of the first weekend though. Tradition is tradition – particularly for a genealogist and writer of historical fiction stories. Every year, for about […]
I have been asked a few times why, since I love history and research so much, I don’t just write the facts. Facts are interesting. Why not just tell it like it is? To me, however, the facts are created by other elements – elements that are often ignored or […]
