Category Archives: Writing
Life, death and everything in between
I love autumn. It is my favourite time of year, with the myriad of colours, fresh breeze and crunching of leaves underfoot. It is a time of change. And a lot of things always seem to change at this time of year, not just in nature but in life as well. With people …
A restored soul and a new part to Esstiiet Oriandus
Between being away on holiday and having relatives visiting from overseas, the last few weeks have been rather busy. On the plus side, I was able to reignite my creativity with views like this: Wandering around streets like this: Hiking through nature like this: And witnessing sunsets …
New discoveries, new ideas, new outlook, new writing
So, it’s been almost eight months since the last time I really engaged in the world of blogging. I managed to not write a single blog post in those months. Sad, right. So, what have I been doing? Well…quite bit of procrastinating…a fair amount of getting myself together…making a few new discoveries (new for me …
Latest drawing
This is my latest graphics tablet drawing. Not brilliant but an improvement I think 🙂 The eyes aren’t quite straight and I’m not thrilled with the mouth but the face shape seemed to come out rather well. The shading was a bit much perhaps but the end result did give me an idea for a …
Ways of writing a novel
As someone who has never actually gone on any writing courses, I must say I sometimes find it hard to write a novel. I have many, many ideas and more often than not start writing something then get stuck or lose my way or whatever else that happens and wind up leaving it. The first …
Looking forward
I know I have made many posts about writing and goals and this is another of those 🙂 I have never been one to look too far into the future. My goals are normally relatively short term goals and any long term ones are so generalised that if you had to look at them, they …
1000 Words
I have started a new blog. Below is the first post and about page. Please do visit and follow ! Sometimes I really struggle to sit down and write something that is worthy of being read. As I really want to write, I have decided to get serious about writing, which is why I have …
A valuable education
How fortunate do you really feel to have what you do have in life? You have just arrived in a rural village somewhere in Africa and you meet little Thembi, sitting on the side of the red dirt road that was painstakingly dug by hand. She is wearing a tatty old red check dress that …
Drawing Room Days 
Uncomfortable writing
Karen ♦ 30 September, 2013 ♦ 8 Comments
As you know from several previous posts, I am trying to be a more serious writer and, although I have been very busy lately and the stream of blog posts has dried to a trickle, I am still writing. Specifically, I am hard at work on another book. So with the little time I have …
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