It’s my birthday next month and I’ve just rediscovered this 17th-century nun’s prayer: Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to … Read More
Month: January 2008
Need cheering up?
I have just been to The Big Green Blookshop blog – which I found on Fidra’s blog. I’ve been MATing all morning and I really MUST get down to some writing, but if you need cheering up (I don’t this morning, but it happened anyway, if you see what I mean) read this post by … Read More
Camas Chil Mhalieu, Loch Linnhe
I am going here: Which is in northwest Scotland. Image © Copyright Donald MacDonald and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. I’m going in search of the cottage that my great-grandmother used to go to get away from it all. I want to breathe the air, see what she saw and hear what … Read More
BUILDERS and FISHERMEN, a MAT with a purpose
I am MATing, but there is a point. (Well, I would say that wouldn’t I?) Last night the boyf and I were talking about writing and I said I felt as if I was assembling, not writing at the moment. I’m just collecting the already-written pieces of my third (sorry, second) novel and putting them … Read More
New Leaves
Leaves from my small plot for the new year. And as for turning them over, or at least paying attention to them, I shall divide 2008 between writing my third novel, a modern Beauty and the Beast (it’s really my second second novel, because the first second novel turned into a short story) and preparing … Read More