A Breath of Fresh Air: Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers get together to discuss what inspires them!Farewell long hot summer, winter's icy breath has been making itself felt in the Land of the Long White Cloud this week. We've had a dusting of snow on the Tararua Ranges, a southery blowing straight off the South Pole, and I'm pretty sure …

The Beat of the Heartstone: WIPpet Wednesday

It's my favourite time of the week again - the Wednesday WIPpet! Time to crack open the WIP and see if there is anything vaguely related to the date that is worth sharing with the world. Like everyone else, it's getting hard to find a passage sans spoilers to share. So in deference to the …

Kindness: Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers get together to talk about what inspires them. Someone once asked me what I hoped for my children; what parental dreams and aspirations I had for them? Did I want them to be clever, funny, sporty or creative? They're great kids, and as any parent will tell you I want …

Is Your Plot Bunny Leading You on a Wild Goose Chase?

A weekly blog hop where writers get togetherto talk about what inspires them.This week I'm inspired by plot bunnies. Those marvellous story ideas that turn up at the most inopportune moments, dazzle you with their clever brilliance, and then bound off at speed, so you have no choice but to follow and see where they …

What’s Up Buttercup? WIPpet Wednesday

We're having one of those glorious autumn mornings in the Land of the Long White Cloud. It's cool but not the promised southerly that pierces the bones, the few low-lying clouds are burning off and the sun is shining. My poor sick children have recovered enough to be at school and I get to hang …

I Know How He Feels… WIPpet Wednesday

I was thinking of renaming this blog WIPpet Wednesday with Raewyn, mainly because real life obligations have been crazy time-consuming and the WIPpets have been about all I can manage. Saying that I adore the WIPpeteers, and at least I'm still tapping into the writing (it's alive, but on life-support at the moment). However I …

A Little Tenderness? WIPpet Wednesday

Wednesday's almost flown the coop here in NZ, and all this bashing on about being at the start of the timezone is coming back to bite me today. So before the date ticks over, here's my WIPpet Wednesday offering and a request for help! In honour of it being the 1st of May, here is …