Writing is a strange thing. For months – sometimes years – you spend countless hours alone with imaginary people, wondering whether anyone else will ever care about them as much as you do. Every chapter is rewritten.Every sentence questioned.Every scene doubted. So there are moments during the publishing process that stop you in your tracks….
There are some stories that you write, and then there are some stories that quietly wait for you. Beneath the Ceiba Tree has been with me for many years. It has travelled with me through different chapters of my own life, patiently sitting in a folder on my computer, waiting for the moment I was…
It’s been a while! If you’ve visited this website recently, you may have noticed that things have been rather quiet. The truth is, life has had other plans for me over the last year. Between family commitments, running my Equine Touch practice, working, and navigating a major house renovation that became far more complicated than…
The heath had changed had colour, from a fiercely deep purple to weathered, wet grey. The heathers buffeted in the bleak wind, emblems of the strength of this land. The rain, cold and light, travelled westwards, like a moving curtain, closed and frigid, it’s mission never complete. It put to ground the leaves that the…
Monday 27th April 2020 Number of words written last week: Hardly any! This week’s target: continue editing until ready to enter on 30th April. Last week’s focus: MAKE IT REAL This week’s focus: as above. Last week, although I set myself a goal for 5000 words – I changed it. At the beginning of the…
Monday 20th April 2020. Number of words written last week: 6500 (weekly target min 5,000). Double yay! This week’s target: min 5000 Last week’s focus: write, make it real, make it more real This week’s focus: as above. Managed to smash my target! Hurrah! I found more ‘stuff’ this week which will help build on…
Monday 13th April 2020 Number of words written last week: 5000 (weekly target min 5,000). Yay! This week’s target: min 5000. (safe) Last week’s focus: write, write, write. This week’s focus: write, make it real, make it more real. I feel slightly jovial that I achieved this week’s target, espeically as I partially failed last…
Monday 6th April 2020 I have decided to create a short, sweet, Monday Blog to help me self-motivate. This blog really is just for myself and I don’t intend to educate or pontificate or lecture to anyone, with it. Its simply a way to self-discipline. I have found my concentration waning from one extreme to…
My publishing journey has been on hold. After a break I didn’t emerge for quite a while. I discontinued going to my writing group. Then I became involved in another project – collecting animals, including: three horses; three dogs; and two donkeys – and I bought some land to put them on! Most importantly, I ran…
Devotion. An infinite amount of forgiveness. They get excited just because… they’re alive. Their enthusiastic zest for life. They run for the joy of running. They wear their hearts on sleeves – just like us. Their willingness to be trained. The possession of a deep, deep love for their owner. Loyalty.
