Clare Davidson's Blog, page 6

F is for fedora

Before Eleanor started school (and obviously before we moved), I'd often bump into a friend at the bus stop in Asda's car park, when I was shopping before picking Eleanor up from nursery. During one of our random conversations, said friend made a flippant comment about how every hero should wear a hat.

Writing process blog hop

Thanks to Kat Ellis for tagging me to take part in this blog hop. I met the lovely Kat via Twitter. Turns out we're both UK young adult authors.Kat writes sci-fi, fantasy and thriller novels in the young adult genre.

E is for Eleanor

I put a call out on Facebook and Twitter for help with today's letter and as soon as I hit "post" my brain went: hello? Your daughter's name starts with E. However, I'm sure you guys have heard enough about my Eleanor, so how about her namesake?When I was a lot younger, my parents took me to Snowdonia and showed me around several of the castles which used to form the so called 'iron ring'.

D is for dare

As in dare to do something different.A few weeks ago I was in a bit of a rut. My creativity was drying up and I was feeling very lonely. That's the problem with moving away from the majority of your friends.

C is for characters

I almost didn't do this post, because I noticed someone else doing the A-Z blogging challenge was doing one with the same title. Plus, I figured readers might be expecting me to stick with my inspirational theme of the last couple of days.

B is for beautiful

I was looking through Eleanor's learning journey folder at her parents' evening the other week. One of the first pieces of work she had to do at her new school was write down why she was special. This is what she wrote:I am cute.

A is for achievement

The other week, my four year old daughter had a series of small achievements. She got a great report at parents' evening (the first in her new school); she was awarded a badge and certificate at her swimming lessons; she skipped a reading level and she got a certificate for fantastic homework in her school assembly.

If you try to please everyone, you won’t please anyone

One of the side effects of being bullied at school, was that I tried to please everyone. I thought that if I could do and say the things other people wanted me to, they would be my friends and the bullying would stop.

What writers do, part 2

In case you missed the first part of my video blog series, you can watch it here. I've also added a transcript to this video.Today, I've posted the second video in the series, where I talk about where I find my story ideas and what I do once I've found them.

The theatre at the cinema

I have relatives who live within commuter distance of London. Every time I visit, I tell myself I’m going to get into London to see a new show. More often than not, it doesn’t happen: I leave it too late to get tickets; I can’t interest my husband into going with me; inertia kicks in as we go to the area semi-regularly.