TWO POSTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
Hello and happy February Dear Readers! Happy Chinese New Year to any readers who celebrate it as well.
Today you get two posts for the price of one, although both of them are hosted over on other sites. Please do click through to check them out and share them if you like them.
The first is 'Away With The Fairies: Living Between Two Worlds' which is on the Royal Literary Fund's Collection Showcase. This is a light-hearted piece which goes into the effect of living an imaginative and creative life on the way that others may perceive you.
The second is rather less light-hearted (I did try, but the piece just didn't want to go that way) called 'White Noise' over on the Author Allsorts site. This is the story of how I went from an author who craved peace and solitude to one who is delighted to work in busy places surrounded by others.
In other news I'm still working on my watery-themed fairytale retelling and have finally chucked everyone right into the sea, by way of wrecking their ship, hurray! Yes, this is a cause for celebration. Shut up.
As before, I do have more exciting news to share, but the wheels of publishing grind exceedingly slow, and it's an author's lot to keep their mouth firmly shut. However, here's a shot of me working in my local coffee place a couple of weeks ago when something rather lovely turned up in my inbox:
Hopefully you will feel this level of delight when I can finally talk about it!
You'll notice my hair's finally growing out, by the way. What do you think, should I go back to shoulder length or maybe try something even more drastic and revisit the bob from 2007? Let me know what you think!
Take care and read you later, lovelies.
Today you get two posts for the price of one, although both of them are hosted over on other sites. Please do click through to check them out and share them if you like them.
The first is 'Away With The Fairies: Living Between Two Worlds' which is on the Royal Literary Fund's Collection Showcase. This is a light-hearted piece which goes into the effect of living an imaginative and creative life on the way that others may perceive you.
The second is rather less light-hearted (I did try, but the piece just didn't want to go that way) called 'White Noise' over on the Author Allsorts site. This is the story of how I went from an author who craved peace and solitude to one who is delighted to work in busy places surrounded by others.
In other news I'm still working on my watery-themed fairytale retelling and have finally chucked everyone right into the sea, by way of wrecking their ship, hurray! Yes, this is a cause for celebration. Shut up.
As before, I do have more exciting news to share, but the wheels of publishing grind exceedingly slow, and it's an author's lot to keep their mouth firmly shut. However, here's a shot of me working in my local coffee place a couple of weeks ago when something rather lovely turned up in my inbox:
Hopefully you will feel this level of delight when I can finally talk about it!
You'll notice my hair's finally growing out, by the way. What do you think, should I go back to shoulder length or maybe try something even more drastic and revisit the bob from 2007? Let me know what you think!
Take care and read you later, lovelies.
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Feb 15, 2018 06:14AM
I love the long hair. And the color is gorgeous!
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Eilonwy wrote: "I love the long hair. And the color is gorgeous!"Why thank you! That is my natural colour, but for some reason the lighting in my local coffee place gives me rather marvellous highlights that aren't evident at any other time (I'm still thinking about cutting my hair off, though - it's been windy this week and driving me mad!).
Some lighting does wonders! There's a building near where I work that has this reflective stuff on the windows that makes my hair look the most beautiful color ever when the sun is shining. I wish I could carry one of those windows around with me! I do understand about hair and wind. I'll leave the house determined to keep my hair down, but one or two gusts of wind and that's it -- it's right back into a ponytail. A young woman I know keeps the sides of her head shaved to keep her otherwise long hair out of her face because she can't stand wind and hair, either.
And with the length it is now, when it's back in a pontytail the ends tangle up too, so it ends up being like felt. Even when I wear it in a braid one side eventually slides free and gets all tangled and then catches under my backpack strap or in a car door - it's just so blooming FINE. People think that's a good thing but it's NOT.
