Tag Archive: manuscript

Festival Glare

Burnished pashminas draped over black shoulders moving about in military precision Clicks and counters collected at door a flutter of eager listeners shuffle in They wait… until there, in spotlight glow, sits the prize.… Continue reading

The Magic and Menace

A Café Moment I have a love/hate relationship with Bookstores. I absolutely love them. I walk in and instantly I’m transported, inspired by the row upon row of created works, colourful, bound, bursting with… Continue reading

Novel Update #22: A Writer’s journey

So Sam is about to be admitted to hospital (Novel update #6). It’s going to be a very scary time for Mary, his wife as she comes to deal with the nightmare that… Continue reading

Novel Update #21: A Sampling

Hello there: As I continue to slug away at editing the manuscript for my novel Fallout with my editor, I thought I’d offer up another tiny sample. Here’s a small taste. Enjoy! Lise was embarrassed now.… Continue reading

Novel Update #20: It clicks

For all you writers out there, you will understand when I say how difficult it is to reach that point in your work when things just come together and CLICK. Most times it’s… Continue reading

Perfection and Gwyneth Paltrow

This is the paradox of perfectionism. It doesn’t matter how hard we try, we will never get there. There is no point at which we can say we have reached perfection. There is… Continue reading

Reminiscing and Resolutions

Well 2015 is coming to a close (with snow, I might add as my SNOWLESS post went unobserved by that Frosty fella that is Winter) and as it closes, I find myself recalling and… Continue reading

Lost in Fog

Today I don’t feel like a writer. I know I write and I love to write and frankly I don’t know what else I can do since it is so ingrained in me.… Continue reading

Endless Ever After

Stitching it together piece by piece Trying to make it brilliant then release   Always constant motion words fall through Characters are mumbling Fighting blue   Never wanting less than rainbow shades Cannot… Continue reading

Playful Wordplay

Hello Friends. Here is another re-post while I continue to redraft the manuscript. Enjoy! — Paula Cough, craving candy clear Don’t doodle, dare dear Seeing seesaw saving soul-full Hasty help, humbly hopeful Balanced… Continue reading