ODDZNNS is now SOMETIMES WORDS HELP
It’s February already and I haven’t thanked you all enough for your support of Oddznns – for dropping by and commenting, for your ‘likes’ and your ‘rants’. Your involvement helped me to grow in my...
View ArticleBridging 9,700 miles and a 12 hour time difference with words
How words helped two women find common ground despite distance and a 12 hour time lag. Late last year I joined Jeff Goin’s on-line platform building course at www.tribewriters.com. In one of the...
View ArticleCritiquing Can Make You a Better Writer… and Person
If you critique other writers work, your own writing improves. Everyone knows that. But can critiquing make you a better person? In my experience, it can. See my guest post at Joe Bunting, The Write...
View ArticleDieting or writing – we still need to outwit our reptilian brains
Just in case you’ve forgotten … There’s more than the one brain between our ears, and they’re constantly battling with each other. Successful dieting and writing requires outwitting our ancient...
View ArticlePitching Heart Bones to movie producers Tuesday night!
These are the bones of the story. Please let them speak to you as I pitch … What do you think? Will material artefacts add to or detract from my pitch? Love to have your tips;)Filed under: POSTS...
View ArticleA week both sweet and bitter
I’m exhausted from the week that was but thought I should check in with everyone just to let you know how everything’s been. It was seven days of both sweet and bitter. Sunday November 2nd – I...
View ArticleTalking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice
Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select BooksFiled under: POSTS Tagged: ... a citizen of my world, As the Heart Bones Break, Vietnam, Writers...
View ArticleWho are you to write about it?
I’m defending my right to write about the “other” on Caroline Allen’s Art of Story Writing blog. http://artofstorytelling.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/who-are-you-to-write-about-it/ Caroline is a writing...
View ArticleReading in Myanmar: Text and sub-text
I was reading in Myanmar. It was my time, my panel appearance at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival with Canadian literary prodigy Karen Connelly. We were to be speaking about my novel As the Heart Bones...
View ArticleDo you wonder how writers write?
The #mywritingprocess blog tour is going round the world asking writers to answer questions about their writing process. Writer and traveller Patricia Storbeck – who leads the kind of life I sometimes...
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