It's only a few days now until Frontier Resistance is published, and apart from thinking about that, I've been thinking about cats. Why might you ask? I think it's because I enjoy writing about them, and they form a very important part of the Frontier Series. I am, very definitely, a cat person. Even now … Continue reading Cats
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When You Finish Your First Draft (And How Being Too Close To Your Own Work Can Be A Problem)
Today I finished the bulk of my first draft of my third book. What I mean by 'the bulk' is that I finished the meat of the story. I still have a couple of things to write, some loose ends to wrap up, and I'm still pondering whether I want to completely close the door … Continue reading When You Finish Your First Draft (And How Being Too Close To Your Own Work Can Be A Problem)
Continuum X – Next Weekend’s activity!
Next weekend I'll be at my very first Science Fiction Convention - Continuum X: Carnival of Lost Souls, in Melbourne. Although I've always loved reading Science Fiction, and now writing it, I've never been to one, as we've always lived in remote, and now rural, Australia.It's really interesting when you tell people that you're going … Continue reading Continuum X – Next Weekend’s activity!
Connecting With Your Characters (Or why some authors cry when they kill off their darlings.)
Today I killed someone. Not a real person, I hasten to add, if you're thinking I'm some kind of closet murderer, but one of the characters that I hold dear. And as I wrote, I cried. As I finished writing, and closed the chapter on this person's life - a life lived only in my imagination … Continue reading Connecting With Your Characters (Or why some authors cry when they kill off their darlings.)
The Wonderful World of Music
I'm an amateur musician in my spare time. (Some would say very amateur!) I love to sing, and occasionally play the flute. Most of the family is musical, and as I was driving our youngest back to uni this afternoon, we talked about the love of music. Not in a lot of words, but in … Continue reading The Wonderful World of Music
So Much To Write About, And So Little Time To Do It!
I was pondering what to write about when I realised that I was procrastinating about it because I wanted to write something else. Not that I don't want to write a blog post either, it was just because I'm heavily involved in writing the third and final book in the Frontier Trilogy. I've just got to … Continue reading So Much To Write About, And So Little Time To Do It!
Reading Through Life and Death
A few posts ago I wrote about Life and Death and Easter. Since then, I've attended a funeral. It was while I was at the funeral, listening to the beautiful eulogies, that I began to think about the role of a writer in effecting change, and becoming a part of peoples' lives. Why was my attention … Continue reading Reading Through Life and Death
A Day at the Newcastle Writers Festival
I spent yesterday at the Newcastle Writers Festival, attending several sessions and catching up with a Goodreads friend. I've always enjoyed reading Kate Forsyth's books, so when I discovered that she was speaking at two sessions, it was more than I could resist. Having heard her speak previously at the NSW Writers Centre Speculative Fiction … Continue reading A Day at the Newcastle Writers Festival
The Never Ending Agent Issue.
Although I've had one book published, and another is to be published shortly, I don't have an agent. I'm not self published (thank you Hague Publishing!), and not really in a position for agent hunting right now, due to my current publishing commitments, but I was prompted to think about the whole agent thing again … Continue reading The Never Ending Agent Issue.
How Do You Keep Your Readers Enthralled?
As I write this, I've just finished "Words of Radiance" by Brandon Sanderson. I read the first of this series not long after its release and absolutely loved it, so I've been eagerly awaiting the second installation. I thought therefore, that I'd write this post partly as a book review, and partly as a discussion … Continue reading How Do You Keep Your Readers Enthralled?
Leonie Rogers 