A Writer's Journey

After considerable sketching attempts, the child is finished! I am so happy to have this task completed! The child, named Taylor (Tay for...

I expected to find the child illustration challenging. I haven't taken a course on figure drawing for decades. It's not just the human...

I'm always amazed at the spontaneity that occurs in writing. From time to time a character comes along - one you hadn't planned for - and...

I bought a book off Amazon and it arrived yesterday. It's about how to illustrate a children's book. It's so big I can't hold it! Between...

A number of years ago I was introduced to an art form which combines the use of repetitious patterns and relaxation to create a Zen...

I spent the morning doing research. I've never illustrated a book before and felt the need to get as much information as I could to find...

I've heard my fellow writers talk about imposter syndrome and even read articles about it, but I've never felt it, until today. I think,...

Many years ago I created a series of watercolour paintings that represented tree elementals. One, Bruce the Spruce, is what I thought a...

For the last few days I've focused on the evolution of Devaro, the wizard, from my children's picture book A MOST CURIOUS MAGICAL TALE....

I just got word that, for the first time in years, Heirloom Literacy will be accepting direct submissions from authors! I have 21 days to...

This morning I’m facing questions that have been coming up from time to time, recently, on this writer’s journey. The big one is: What do...

Best wishes for a very happy birthday and an amazing year ahead to my son, Peter. I’m so grateful to have you in my life. You have grown...

I started learning about enneagrams today. It’s an incredibly complex system used to identify personality types by people in the mental...

There’s been a dramatic shift in the weather overnight. It’s gone from being very hot and humid to cold and rainy. I suffer from multiple...

I did pay the price for pushing my body beyond the edge of endurance. My Fibromyalgia let me know in no uncertain terms that pacing is a...

World building is very demanding. I’ve never done it before but thought of Tolkien and wondered what he’d done at this stage in his...

I've been putting the finishing touches on Phildor the Baby Dragon Bear character today. I added a row of decorative loops down his tummy...

The lyric says it all! Help comes from many places - some conventional, others not so much. Early this morning I awoke to a channeling...

Today I’m going to talk about the elephant in the room. The fact that I’ve self-published several non-fiction books. The fact that for a...

I learned so much today! I spent most of the day working on my blog as I learned how to import pictures and add them to my blog entries....