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 about meI reckon I had a pretty good year but I also recognise that I worked like an express train, even at the weekend, and rarely found time to ‘smell the flowers’ or take a walk alone on the wide beach that is a stone’s throw from my home. When I look back, the temptation of putting a ‘pathless wood’ into my future is stronger than ever. And so, I am not going to set any goals for 2012. Instead I plan to do something braver still and attempt not to try so hard. Now wouldn’t that be [...]  eventsIt’s a brilliant opportunity by the way to follow the entire How To Write Your Life Story program in a beautiful environment and with lovely food. Thanks to Lois and Bill, who run The Watermill at Posara for inviting [...] about meAt this year’s wonderful WIN conference I had the pleasure of talking to Fran O’Hara of Scarlet Design for quite some time about the art of what she calls Visual Minutes. More than a mindmap, these are a graphic representation of what is said in a meeting, workshop or keynote session. I had met Charleen Michel many times at WIN but had not realised that she was now assisting Fran and had discovered she had quite a knack for [...] eventsNancy told us how studies were done in which trainee medical doctors were also taught history of art alongside their other work, and how doing so made their diagnoses more accurate. Why? Because they had learned to pay [...] eventsIf you have been thinking about taking a course in how to write life story but wishing you lived in the Hague so you could attend my workshops, you will now be pleased to know that How to Write Your Life Stories is going to The Watermill at Posara, near Pisa, Italy, next October (2012). If you would like to learn how to add SPICE to your writing, how to write compelling prose about your experiences and discover how to write in complete stories, then this is the course for [...] eventsI use networking to meet people who might hire me, buy my books or ask me to publish them, one day. I also use networking to meet people who may never hire me nor care two hoots about what I write but who like me and trust me and may refer me to their friends. Regardless of which type of person I hope to add to my network, it is fundamental that they know what I [...] eventsCome to celebrate the launch of Sunshine Soup, Jo Parfitt’s first novel in the Hague on 1st October 2011 and ask six recently published, local authors, how they achieved their publishing [...] about meGlobal writer and journalist, Renata Harper, interviews me about the agony and the ecstasy of writing my upcoming novel, Sunshine Soup. I talk about how long it took, how I took a risk, how hard it was to write and how I coped not only with the knockbacks but that well-known moment, when you can see the finish line, and suddenly think that every word you wrote was utter rubbish. See, I’m normal, just like everyone [...] about meI always knew words had the power to do many things, from healing and sharing to changing lives, but I never realised they could create a character who really could [...] about meIn yesterday’s blog post on the wisdom of Stephen Fry, I shared with you the phenomenal insights this master of erudition has on writing. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. At the point when he said ‘writing is difficult’ the penny [...] |
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